Brazilian Police Kill Two Dozen in Deadliest Favela Raid in Rio’s History
“It’s extermination—there’s no other way to describe it,” said one Brazilian researcher. More than 100 heavily armed Brazilian police officers stormed a sprawling Rio de Janeiro favela Thursday and killed at least two dozen people, a raid that human rights activists, researchers, and journalists described as the deadliest such police atrocity in the city’s history. The hourslong […]