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Chauan Cezário, one of the Military Police victims, in a Rio police station. Photo by Urbano Erbiste/O Globo

Posthumous Innocence Thanks to Mobile-Recorded Video

By Afonso Benites • Translation by Cara D’Rosario • February 28, 2015

Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese, published in El País, click here. The Military Police said the youth shot at the officers but the video recorded by the victim contradicts this version of events. […]