MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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License-to-Kill Policing to Get a Trial Run in Rio de Janeiro
By artappraiser on Sun, 12/23/2018 - 7:27pm |- The state’s governor has promised gunmen will face ‘slaughter’
- City and its slums are a test case for Brazil as a whole
By David Biller @ Bloomberg.com, December 22, 2018
Teams of marksmen next year will patrol swaths of Rio de Janeiro with high-powered weapons and a license to kill, said a security adviser to Governor-elect Wilson Witzel.
As many as 120 sharpshooters will accompany police incursions into the slums of Brazil’s postcard city to exterminate gun-toting criminals, according to Flavio Pacca, a longtime associate of Witzel who the governor-elect’s press office said will join the administration. The shooters will work in pairs -- one to pull the trigger, one to monitor conditions and videotape deaths [....]
Also see Dec. 16 news item: BRAZIL’S VIOLENT DRUG TRADE OVERRUNS PARAGUAY: ‘SCENES YOU ONLY SEE IN MOVIES’
URL:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-22/license-to-kill-policing-to-get-a-trial-run-in-rio-de-janeiro
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