{"id":44573,"date":"2018-06-22T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=44573"},"modified":"2023-08-23T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:20:29","slug":"vengeful-police-operation-terrorizes-mare-voicesfromsocialmedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=44573","title":{"rendered":"Vengeful Police Operation Terrorizes Mar\u00e9 #VoicesFromSocialMedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Complexo da Mar\u00e9<\/a> favelas mourn the death of 14-year-old Marcos Vinicius da Silva<\/a> this week, as a violent police operation Wednesday morning sent residents, including teachers and students, ducking for cover<\/a>. The seventh grader was running late on his way to school on June 20 when a Civil Police helicopter, multiple armored vehicles, and over one hundred police and military agents invaded the complex. As firefights began, despite the school uniform<\/a>, he was shot in the stomach. He and at least six others<\/a> in Mar\u00e9 lost their lives in the police operation.<\/p>\n

The second helicopter-backed operation<\/a> in ten days, the Civil Police later justified its actions<\/a> as undertaken to \u201cfulfill arrest warrants.\u201d The operation allegedly sought to investigate and arrest suspects for the murder of Civil Police Chief Ellery de Ramos Lemos, killed June 12 during an operation<\/a> in the favela of Acari<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, however, no arrests were made<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Community media collective Mar\u00e9 Vive<\/a> accused the police of undertaking a revenge<\/a> operation, writing<\/a>: \u201cWhat people are saying is that this operation has to do with revenge for the death of a Civil Police officer who was killed in a shootout in the Acari favela. They came to spill blood!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Following Lemos\u2019 death, Felipe Curi, the Civil Police delegate responsible for coordinating Wednesday\u2019s operation had\u00a0criticized human rights groups and NGOs<\/a> for not speaking out on the killing of the Civil Police chief in Acari. He had vowed retaliation, writing: \u201cWe will find those responsible for this barbarous act ourselves. This will not go unpunished!”<\/p>\n

Further inflaming local suspicions, Civil Police delegate Marcus Amim had\u00a0appeared on national television<\/a> on June 15, stating: \u201cAll involved in Acari today are enemies of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro. We will hunt you wherever you are. It won\u2019t help to post on Facebook that a child was shot\u2026 Lies. It won\u2019t help. You won\u2019t be able to get us out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Amim\u2019s comments resurfaced on June 20 just as images began circulating of Bruna Silva holding her son\u2019s blood-stained school uniform. Emotions erupted and Mar\u00e9 took to the streets<\/a>. Protesters surged onto the Avenida Brasil and Linha Amarela highways around midnight, blocking traffic and clashing with Military Police.<\/p>\n

From the nearby Alem\u00e3o favela complex, community media collective Coletivo Papo Reto\u2019s Thain\u00e3 de Medeiros<\/a> condemned the delegate\u2019s comments, writing<\/a>: \u201c\u2018It won\u2019t help to post on Facebook that a child was shot\u2019 That was what Delegate Marcus Amim said on [TV]. Every child killed in the favela at the hands of the State is also on this delegate\u2019s bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The following morning, Marcos da Silva\u2019s classmates gathered with teachers<\/a> outside the Vicente Mariano Education Center in an act of solidarity. Students wore school uniforms splattered with red paint, carrying posters that said \u201cI am a student. Don\u2019t stain my shirt with blood,\u201d and \u201cPolice, I am a child. Don\u2019t kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Complexo da Mar\u00e9 is no stranger to police operations and military action. According to the NGO Redes da Mar\u00e9<\/a>, the area saw 41 police operations in 2017 alone, resulting in 35 days of missed school. Between 2014 and 2015, the Armed Forces occupied Mar\u00e9 in a fourteen-month operation that Armed Forces commander General Eduardo Villas B\u00f4as later called a waste. \u201cWe spent R$400 million [around US$110 million] and I must say that it was money absolutely squandered,\u201d he told Piau\u00ed<\/em> magazine<\/a> in March 2018.<\/p>\n

The Armed Forces have mounted or supported significant operations in favelas across Rio since President Michel Temer’s declaration of a federal military intervention in February. According to the Intervention Observatory<\/a>, a monitoring body hosted by the Center for Citizenship and Security Studies (CESeC), security forces conducted 203 operations in the first 120 days of intervention.<\/p>\n

The recent use of armored helicopters for air-to-ground fire in Mar\u00e9,\u00a0City of God<\/a>, Manguinhos, and Jacarezinho<\/a>, though, has shocked NGOs and specialists alike. Luke Dowdney, founder and director of the Mar\u00e9 NGO Fight for Peace called such tactics<\/a> \u201cunacceptable and repugnant\u201d and Redes da Mar\u00e9 issued a condemnatory note<\/a>. Daniel Lozoya from the Public Defenders\u2019 Office filed an injunction<\/a>, urging the prohibition of police helicopters in densely populated communities and demanding the State comply with its obligation to present a risk prevention plan to avoid violating human rights in favelas.<\/p>\n

The Civil Police issued its own note<\/a>, writing: \u201cRio\u2019s Civil Police reiterates that the use of helicopters in operations, as occurred on Wednesday, serves to guarantee the safety of the whole population, among them the residents of the community involved and the police undertaking their activities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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