Rio's poor rally at posh beach to protest killings

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

BY SEBASTIAN SMITH (AFP) 9 HOURS AGO


Hundreds of residents from Rio de Janeiro's ultra-violent favelas descended on the posh Copacabana beach area Sunday to plead for an end to lethal shootouts between drug traffickers and police.

Against a backdrop of weekly, even daily shootings of innocent people in military-style police operations, the demonstrators said Rio's rich and powerful should stop looking away.

"Coming here is the only way we can get the attention of the authorities," said Sergio da Silva, 52, a member of the community association for Jacare favela, standing with a crowd of 400 on the avenue outside Rio's iconic Copacabana Palace hotel.

"People have a lot of difficulties. It's hard on the children. There are shootouts and people are shot," he said. "There are a lot of children who are lost to the drug traffickers and to using drugs."

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[DK504]

1. One year, one year and this guy is toast.

" ... charging President Michel Temer with corruption, but given the clear indications of graft committed by the leader, there was no alternative."


And yet we are dragging our feet in getting Dolt 45 thrown into jail. WTF?

[Astraea]

2. just more winning

in the War on Drugs.