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Death Threats Follow

artappraiser — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 05:04:52 +0000

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Death Threats Follow Cartoonist Latuff's Criticism of Brazil's Military Police
Global Voices, Translation posted 21 August 2013 18:22 GMT (original post was Aug. 13)

A comment by cartoonist Carlos Latuff [en] on his Facebook about the recent case of the suspected murder of two military police officers by their own 13 -year-old son elicited immediate reactions on social networks, including death threats [.....]

Murder is much more common in

artappraiser — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:48:36 +0000

In reply to Brazil shocked as 'sweet child' murders his own family

Murder is much more common in Brazil than in the U.S, 4 times more common.:

Between 1980 and 2011, Brazil was the 7th most violent country in the world. Nearly 41,000 people were murdered in Brazil in 2010, according to UN statistics, or about 21 per every 100,000 people. By way of comparison, the murder rate in the U.S. that year was 4.8 per every 100,000. Brazil has redoubled efforts, with limited success and not without controversy, to combat the violence as it prepares to host the World Cup next year and the Olympics in 2016.

from Brazil Seeks Answers in ‘Amityville’ Copycat Murders
By Noah Rayman, Time, Aug. 08, 2013

So a 13-year old would be hearing about murder all the time, especially the son of two cops, with the father a SWAT team cop. (Note: the article is partly reporting on a local theory that the kid was not the killer, but that it might have been gang retribution.)

?Possessed? by real-life

artappraiser — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:53:14 +0000

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‘Possessed’ by real-life ‘Amityville Horror’ killer, Brazilian boy kills family, goes to school

By Deborah Hastings, New York Daily News, Aug. 7, 2013

A Sao Paulo boy, 13, killed his parents, grandmother and great-aunt, then calmly went to school and committed suicide after classes. He was reportedly inspired by mass killer in Amityville, N.Y. [....]