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THREAD: Black people that were killed by cops in Brazil.
#BlackLivesMatters
#BlackLivesMatters
Before starting this thread i wanna make sure that i know that black people are killed by cops in the whole world, not only here or on the USA. But here if you're poor, black, and is living your life, you can be murdered or arrested by cops anytime.
If you can, pls retweet this. I wanna let the world know what happens here.
Ăgatha Felix, an 8 year old girl was travelling with her mother, Vanessa Sales, in one of the vans that serve as public transport in the winding lanes of the sprawling favela when she was shot in the back. Police said they responded to an attack from gang members.
Residents said there was no gun battle; a police officer had fired at two men on a motorbike and hit the girl instead.âA motorbike passed and he tried to hit it and hit the van.
The space was very short, six to seven metres. The shot went through the van, it went through Ăgathaâs body".
João Pedro, an 14 year old boy, was shot on Monday (18) inside his uncle's house in São Gonçalo, in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, during a Federal Police operation supposed by Rio de Janeiro's Civil and Military police in the Salgueiro Complex.
Relatives and friends say that JoĂŁo Pedro Matos Pinto was playing with his cousins when drug dealers jumped the wall to flee from the agents, who came back shooting and hit the young man in the belly. Police say the teenager was hit during a confrontation with these criminals.
Police accused the soldiers of firing more than 80 shots (on total, 257 shots at the car, killing driver Evaldo dos Santos Rosa and injuring a passenger and a passer-by.
Mr Rosa was driving his family to a baby shower in northern Rio.
Investigators believe the patrol mistook the family's car for one of the same colour driven by gang members.
Investigators believe the patrol mistook the family's car for one of the same colour driven by gang members.
Marcos Vinicius da Silva, a 14-year-old schoolboy, was shot during a security operation during which a police helicopter strafed a densely-populated Rio de Janeiro favela. (No picture found on this one).
Witnesses said that the police helicopter had fired indiscriminately into a densely populated area near a school â an accusation supported by cellphone footage. Teams from the Redes da MarĂ© non-profit group counted over 100 bullet holes in the ground.
Jenifer Cilene Gomes, an 11 year old girl: Katia Cilene (her mother), was cooking, and Jenifer was sitting at the door talking to colleagues when plainclothes policemen,
according to residents, entered the narrow main alley of the Vila Nova Jerusalem favela, under a subway station in the north of Rio. "Mom, the shot caught meâ was what she said when she saw the blood on her chest.
âYou see how we are helping youâ was what one of the policemen said while taking them to the hospital in the vehicle. At one point, the girl stopped opening her eyes when her mother called her.
KauĂŁ RozĂĄrio, an 11 year old boy was shot on May 10 (2019) while riding a bicycle. According to residents, plainclothes police would have chased and shot two men on a motorcycle,
but they also hit the boy and a motorcycle taxi driver, who did not resist. KauĂŁ spent six days in the ICU before he died.
KauĂȘ Ribeiro, an 12 year old boy, died shot in the head. On September 8 (2019) he was walking up the street with a friend after selling his candy when, according to residents, he came across police officers who were shooting down the slum.
KauĂȘ attended school until the middle of the year, but had a problem renewing enrollment. He was calm and treated everyone with respect. "I will never get involved in the drug trade, I don't want to die as a thug," he told Nadia (friend of his family) in their last conversation.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2019/12/saiba-quem-sao-as-seis-criancas-mortas-pela-violencia-no-rio-de-janeiro-em-2019.shtml
The last information i took are all from this article, it is all in portuguese.
The last information i took are all from this article, it is all in portuguese.
END OF THREAD. I wish i could add even more information about other deaths, because i am sure these are just a few, but i couldn't find much more and it is a little hard to make this thread. I hope you all got the message of this thread, of how the black lives are treated.
I wish i didn't have to make all this, but sadly, this is our reality. I can't see what is going on anymore, it is sad and disgusting, the fact that most of people on this thread were innocent children, that lives were taken off their families. Love and support to these families.
PLEASE, retweet this thread, read it. It is super important that everyone watch what is going not only on the USA, but here in Brazil. I made it in english to spread these informations around the world, so these families may have justice.
