Police Officer in Brazil Jokes on Facebook About Breaking Truncheon Over Protester

[Aflito]

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[QUOTE]A police officer in Rio de Janeiro faces disciplinary measures after posting a self-portrait on Facebook in which he held a broken baton and suggested that he had snapped it on the body of [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTsxeSCt7gk"]a striking teacher[/URL] during [URL="http://youtu.be/RsLM9AcJHXk"]a crackdown on protesters[/URL] this week.

As the Brazilian news network [URL="http://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2013/10/pm-exibe-cassetete-quebrado-diz-foi-mal-fessor-e-causa-repudio-na-web.html"]Globo reported[/URL], the officer — who goes by Tiago Tiroteio, or Tiago Shootout, on the social network — captioned his photograph with a sarcastic apology that roughly translates as, “My bad, Teach!” Police officials said they were still trying to identify the officer.

The incident comes as the use of force against protesters has drawn new attention to complaints about police brutality across Brazil. Prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro [URL="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303722604579113820820204790.html"]said this week[/URL] that they would charge 10 officers with the torture and murder of Amarildo de Souza, a resident of one of the city’s notorious slums who [URL="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/protesters-in-rio-keep-asking-who-threw-the-molotov-and-where-is-amarildo/"]disappeared in July[/URL] after he was detained by the police.[/QUOTE]
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[EmperorScorpious]

Facebook ought to get an award for the number of people it's helped put away :v:

[Fish Muffin]

>still trying to identify

>wearing name tape

:I

Ok

[Archangel125]

Police in Brazil don't exactly have a reputation for being much better than well-trained thugs.

[Wizards Court]

[QUOTE=archangel125;42428451]Police in Brazil don't exactly have a reputation for being much better than well-trained thugs.[/QUOTE]

its mostly the military police actually, which is a remnant of the dictatorship

hell the UN called for its dissolution.

[url]http://rioonwatch.org/?p=7993[/url]

[DesolateGrun]

I went to brasil over the summer and basically all the police have these gigantic revolvers and nothing else on them

[Wizards Court]

[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;42430670]I went to brasil over the summer and basically all the police have these gigantic revolvers and nothing else on them[/QUOTE]

what? our police in the largest cities tend to carry assault rifles everywhere, and at least in rio even when driving a police car, you can see one of them inside pointing the rifle outside to the air at all times.

i've also seen some with rather lacking in trigger discipline too, its fucked up(of course this only happens in the mostly poor/lower middle class areas), you see no such thing in the upper class neighborhoods.

i'm curious what city you visited.