[news] A Massacre is Police Response to Gang Violence

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Police in the Brazilian state of São Paulo summarily executed scores, possibly hundreds, of people in May of this year as part of their response to a wave of attacks by a criminal network against the state.

[A] commission will say the evidence shows many of these deaths were summary killings of people with no link to organised crime, apparently selected because they had previous police records or because they were residents of neighbourhoods long subjected to police violence.

  


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