Claudia Silva Ferreira was shot in the neck and back during a military police operation on the morning of March 16, 2014 in the Morro da Congonha favela, or slum, in the north of Rio de Janeiro. Unconscious, the 38-year-old woman and mother known as Cacau was put in the trunk of a police car to supposedly be taken to the hospital.
Neighbors and friends tried to stop the police from taking her, but the officers fired warning shots in the air to disperse the crowd, and with the trunk open they took her away. Then, on the Intendente Magalhães highway, her apparently lifeless body rolled out of the trunk, and secured by a piece of clothing, was dragged along the asphalt for at least 250 meters without the officers in the car paying attention to the appeals of other drivers and pedestrians.
The shocking scene was filmed by an anonymous driver.
– 5 people die a day at hands of police
– 250,000 people lost their homes
– 10 died building the stadium
– 26 killed in protests
– 15 indigenous deaths on territorial conflicts
– 640 homeless people thrown out of the city
– 60 people (activists and teachers and even lawyers) were “preventively arrested” for 5 days
– Illiteracy in Brazil is 10% on average
– 13 million people are underfed EVERY DAY and many die waiting for medical treatment
– 30 billion dollars spent on the WorldCup – more than the last 3 WorldCups combined (socialized debt for Brazilians & privatized profits of course!
Police Arrest 60 Teachers and Activists in Crackdown on Anti-Cup Protests
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