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UN experts call for urgent reforms in Brazil against "racialized" police brutality following the killings of at least 23 Brazilians during police raids and checks.

Police say early-morning raid in Rio de Janeiro favela community aimed to capture leaders of drug-trafficking group.

Death toll puts the incident among Rio’s deadliest police operations in recent history

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Eleven people were shot dead in a slum on the north side of Rio de Janeiro early on Tuesday during a police raid to capture heads of a drug-trafficking organization, police said.

Rio de Janeiro, May 24 (EFE).- A police raid targeting alleged drug traffickers linked to a powerful criminal gang left at least 21 dead in this southeastern Brazilian metropolis on Tuesday, a year after a similar law-enforcement operation resulted in 28 deaths. Military Police officers entered the Penha favela (shantytown) complex in northern Rio de …

State governor says surprise operation against drug gangs and mafia groups is start of ‘transformational’ occupation

In a major operation to push back against gangs, about 1,200 Brazilian military police were deployed to a neighborhood as part of a project to "change the lives of the people."

Some 1,200 heavily armed military police launched an operation Wednesday to wrench control of Rio de Janeiro's slums from drug gangs, starting with the notorious Jacarezinho favela where residents to…

Some 1,200 heavily armed military police launched an operation Wednesday to wrench control of Rio de Janeiro's slums from drug gangs, starting with the notorious Jacarezinho favela where residents to…

Brazil cops are arrested after video captured them shooting two men on a motorcycle before their bodies were found dumped by the side of the road and officers claimed they fell off bike and had been released from custody Surveillance video shows Edson Arguinez Jr. and Jordan Natividade riding on a motorcycle and being shot at by two police officers Saturday in Brazil Arguinez Jr. and Natividade were found dead in the Rio de Janeiro city of Belford Roxo on Saturday afternoon Authorities arreste...