Brazil judge sees signs of 'arbitrary execution' in Rio police raid
People attend a protest against police violence outside Jacarezinho slum after a police operation which resulted in 25 deaths in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A Supreme Court justice called on Friday forBrazil's top prosecutor to investigateRiode Janeiro's deadliestpoliceraidin over a decade, which has drawn condemnation from the United Nations, human rights groups and local activists.
The shootout killed apoliceofficer and 24 others inRio's Jacarezinho neighborhood on Thursday.Policesaid it was the deadliest operation inRiostate since a 2005raidon the city's northern outskirts.
"The facts reported seem grave and, in one of the videos, there are indications of acts that, in theory, could amount to arbitrary execution," saidJudgeEdson Fachin.
Last year, Fachin issued an order forRiopoliceto suspend operations during the coronavirus pandemic in the informal shantytowns known as favelas - "except in absolutely exceptional cases" that had been pre-approved by prosecutors.
The United Nations human rights office called on Friday for an independent probe of the latest deadly operation in a history of "disproportionate and unnecessary"policeforce.
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Rio'spoliceare among the most deadly in the world, but right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has argued that if anything they need fewer restrictions on lethal force.
Asked about those killed in Jazarezinho on Friday, Vice President Hamilton Mourao said they were "all bandits."
Jacarezinho residents and activists marched outside apolicestation on Friday with a banner demanding, "Stop killing us."
"They would have surrendered, but thepolicecame in to kill, kill, kill. Twenty-five mothers crying. I want my son," said Adriana Santana Araújo, 36, mourning the loss of her 23-year-old son.
Daniele dos Santos said her 32-year-old husband had gone out to buy bread and was caught in the crossfire.
"He got a bullet in the leg and the cop ended up executing him. He was alive. He wasn't armed. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," she said.
Policesaid everyone killed but the officer were suspected drug traffickers reacting violently topolicepresence.