CEPIA expresses its most vehement rejection of the way police action was conducted in Jacarezinho, a low income community of Rio de Janeiro. Disregarding the basic citizenship rights of men and women, adults and children living there, the police action resulted in 28 deaths and not on the 21 arresting that, according to the police, would be the purpose of this nefarious action.
Who are Jacarezinho’s dead?
Why did they not respond to due legal process in security and justice and were acquitted or condemned in accordance with the law?
Why does the police force and even the highest authorities of the state and country insist to treat poor, black and favela residents as second-class citizens? Why they insist with the ideia that a good bandit is a dead one?
The State must offer to these communities schools, health, sanitation, recreation and remove tanks and police that, by putting the State against the residents, favor the activities of paramilitary groups and traffic drug dealers.
