Crime Elite Squad 3: Blood onslaught! Brazil: at least 64 reported killed in Rio’s worst day of violence amid police favela raids
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Americans fantasize about a government that's truly "tough on crime" and that sends in the military to clean up the bad parts
I've been hearing about Brazilian cops' brutal behavior for decades and it hasn't improved anything.
I've been hearing about Brazilian cops' brutal behavior for decades and it hasn't improved anything.
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Even though you're in another continent you still get it, better than most of the idiots around here.
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Americans fantasize about a government that's truly "tough on crime" and that sends in the military to clean up the bad parts
I've been hearing about Brazilian cops' brutal behavior for decades and it hasn't improved anything.
Very easy for someone to say who lives thousands of miles away from the favelas whose residents are being killed, raped, extorted by the gangs
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The operation was a disaster on many levels, but this was tactical brilliance:
https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-jane...eracao-coletiva-seguranca-publica-do-rj.ghtml
https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-jane...eracao-coletiva-seguranca-publica-do-rj.ghtml
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I know some shady milicia characters are associated with the Bolsonaros, especially his sons, but my understanding is that they have plausible deniability. Do you think they're directly associated?
How much of these raids are influenced directly by elements in the government that are associated with milicias versus opportunistic exploitation of operations conducted in good faith against traffickers but that happen to benefit the milicias? I read one other article that suggested the Red Command its at odds with these police gangs, surely it can't be that this operation was partly motivated by that can it?
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As directly as possible. Bolsonaro and family were low on the political totem for most of his career, and had many association with militia elements. Only when he rose to the spotlights around 2018 they started to distance themselves from the militia, but the records are there. Flávio Bolsonaro, his eldest son, was VERY close to Adriano da Nóbrega, he condecorated him and had Adriano's ex wife and mother in law hired in his public office.
It's a mess. It may be to benefit the militias, the PCC (a cartel based in São Paulo that has a nationwide dispute with the CV) or to create political turmoil. Or it may be just a legit operation gone berserk. Too early to tell, but the lack of body cam footage speaks volumes.
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- I live in Brazil most secure state, and they do kill a lot of criminals thought.Americans fantasize about a government that's truly "tough on crime" and that sends in the military to clean up the bad parts
I've been hearing about Brazilian cops' brutal behavior for decades and it hasn't improved anything.
Zero reincidence by now
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- They were close to Roni Lesa also no? The condominy they lived was also famous for the militias, but for this part i cant blame them. They arent bullet-proof
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- They were close. But when it's came to Adriano, maybe was to keep the psichopath pleased? Besides having set up the Bope records in training, records that he was the only one to beat as far i know. He was also feared by everybody, worked for people that even criminals and police feared, the undergroud game bosses of jogo do bicho.
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Roni Lessa, Fabrício Queiroz, the list goes on...
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- Forgot about that one. Guy worked to the Bolsonaros
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- Criminals here, they can choose your 12 year old daughter as partner, kill your son for chosing a diferent collor of clothe. So even thought that isnt solve the crime and drug trafic in the Rio. Theres a satisfation on seeing them slaughtered. It's a payback to the opressed. Saw a video of maybe 15 guys, all young, they all throwed their weapons out, afraid of the Bope entering the room, cant deny you get a satisfaying feeling. Like when The Hulk got stuck in a saferoom to face the Onslaught
What i head by some friends there is that rival cartels are finishing the wounded and the ones that managed to hide. Seems to be a management shift only
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The thread title is very video game esque.
But it's about Brazil. The land of Chute Box and Fast 5. Both CTE inducing.
Obviously it's terrible.
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Governor says city ‘at war’ after gunfights between troops and Red Command drug traffickers who reportedly used weaponised drones
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
At least 64 people have reportedly been killed in Rio’s worst-ever day of violence as more than 2,500 officers and special forces stormed an area of favelas near Rio’s international airport that is considered the headquarters of one of Brazil’s most powerful organised crime groups.
The predawn police raid – the deadliest in Rio’s history – sparked intense gunfights in and around Alemão and Penha favelas, which are home to an estimated 300,000 people.
Drug traffickers from the Red Command criminal faction started shooting and set barricades and cars alight as civil and military police and special forces began their advance shortly after 4am. For the first time, the gang reportedly used weaponised drones to drop explosives on special forces teams.
Gunshot wound victims were carried to a local hospital throughout the morning and by afternoon at least 64 people had been killed, including four police officers. “There are bodies strewn all over the streets,” one community leader told the Rio newspaper O Globo.
Eight police officers and four residents were wounded. Horrific photos of some of the young male victims spread on social media.
Rio’s rightwing governor, Cláudio Castro, declared the city “at war” and said it was the biggest police operation since a 2010 raid in the same region.
“This is no longer common crime, it’s narco-terrorism,” Castro said in a video posted on social media showing armoured personnel carriers at the start of the mission.
More than 80 people were reportedly arrested and at least 93 automatic rifles were seized. The weapons are a sign of the powerful arsenal Rio’s drug traffickers have acquired since they began flooding the favelas in the late 1980s.
Victor Santos, Rio’s security secretary, told local television that “Operation Containment” had been ordered to capture Red Command gang members, who control of large chunks of Rio and are increasingly present in other parts of Brazil, including the Amazon region.
Rene Silva, a community activist and journalist from Alemão who runs a local newspaper called Voz das Comunidades, said he had been woken by gunfire at about 5am.
He voiced despondency over the government’s insistence on conducting deadly and ultimately ineffective police raids into the favelas.
“This doesn’t solve the problem,” Silva said. “Rio’s crime problem needs to be combated in other places – not just in the favelas. We don’t have plantations of marijuana or cocaine here. We don’t have gun factories here. This isn’t a fight against crime, it’s a fight against poverty.”
Glória Alves, a 65-year-old resident of an area of Alemão called Palmeiras, said she was woken shortly after 4am by her barking dog. Alves went into her bathroom, “and there was this volley of shots – so, so many shots. It was horrible”, she said. The shooting continued around her home throughout the day. “We have no idea what time this will all finish,” she added. “It hasn’t stopped. It isn’t over. And I don’t know what time it will end.”
Human rights activists and opposition politicians voiced outrage at the historic day of bloodshed. “What is happening in Alemão and in Penha isn’t an operation – it’s a state-sponsored massacre,” tweeted Lucia Marina dos Santos, a state congress member for the leftwing Worker’s party (PT). Santos accused authorities of turning Rio’s favelas into “war zones” as part of their failed “war on drugs”.
With police operations and gunfights reportedly continuing on Tuesday afternoon, the death toll could still rise.
Until Tuesday, the highest number of deaths during a single police operation happened in May 2021, when 28 people were killed during a police assault on Jacarezinho, another large favela that is considered a Red Command stronghold.
Over the past four decades Rio’s redbrick favelas have fallen further under the control of heavily armed criminal groups, primarily the Red Command, the Pure Third Command, and a constellation of paramilitaries gangs whose ranks often include off-duty members of the security forces. In recent months the Red Command has embarked on a major offensive to seize control of territories in western Rio controlled by paramilitary groups called militias.
Castro said police across Rio had been placed on high alert amid fears drug bosses could order attacks in reprisal for the operation, and on Tuesday afternoon criminals could be seen trying to close some of the city’s most important motorways and roads, including the one leading to the airport. Schools, shops, bars and restaurants all over Rio closed down for fear of attacks and bus companies recalled their fleets, causing rush hour chaos for commuters.
As he stood at one of Alemão’s main entrances on Tuesday afternoon, watching bullet-proof police vehicles drive in, local activist Raull Santiago said the situation remained tense.
Santiago called the killings “a massacre, a brutal landmark in the history of this city … and of Brazil as a whole”. “Warlike” police operations were nothing new to Rio, Santiago said. “But they leave profound marks on those who live in the favelas … Once again the favela is bleeding, once again we are counting an ever increasing number of bodies.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/28/brazil-rio-at-war-police-drug-raids-favelas
At least 60 dead criminals in one raid? That's some Judge Dredd shit right there. To put things in perspective: the combined police forces of England and Wales have shot dead 87 people in the last 35 years!
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Videos are horrendous, dozens of executed corpses displayed side by side in a crowded town.
