Brazilian bank robbers seize another city, sow chaos, death

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DAVID BILLER

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Heavily armed bank robbers invaded the Brazilian city of Cameta just one day after criminals struck another mid-sized city on the opposite side of the country, taking residents hostage as they looted a bank.

Para state’s public security secretariat said in a statement that more than 20 criminals with assault rifles were targeting a branch of the state-run Bank of Brazil in the city in the Amazon region.

Video on social media showed a line of roughly a dozen hostages being led away from a square in Cameta, a city of 140,000 people, and shots ringing out in the night. Local media reported that a military police station was attacked, preventing officers from responding.

The coordinated attack was shocking and came a day after a similar overnight robbery of a Bank of Brazil branch in Brazil’s southern region. In the city of Criciuma, dozens of gunmen armed with assault rifles seized the city and took hostages as they used explosives to rob a bank.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/brazil-media-robbery-8646a320b40f8c9b5e44a4ad4af3f1a4

[underpants]

1. I heard a report on this on NPR yesterday

They are definitely organized and coordinated. Wow.

[AKing]

2. I wonder if they got their ideas from watching "Money Heist".

[getagrip_already]

3. sounds like para military groups likely supported by bolso....

It serves a few purposes.. terrorizes the population allowing for greater gov't military activity, it provides funds and thugs to terrorize the leaders enemies, and it cements a tyrant in office.

It has all the fingerprints of a state sponsored terror campaign aimed at its own citizens.

[Illumination]

4. Could be wrong, but it just makes me wonder if there's any connection to NOballsZERO!?

..... ..... .....

[Marcuse]

5. It couldn't happen here.

[Nitram]

6. That should sour Bolsonaro supporters to his typical conservative "law & order" platform.

[Initech]

7. Oh yeah, life under right wing lunatics is so great isn't it?

[GETPLANING]

8. Bolsonaro's Brazil

Could have been Trump's America. Not that he isn't still trying...Michael Flynn just suggested declaring marshall law and holding elections again.

[Lucky Luciano]

9. Martial

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. Hmmm, here I thought Bolson (as I like to call him) was going to kill all the criminals. Guess

it ain't working out for him.