Evaldo Rosa dos Santos, 51, was a father with no history. A „citizen of good“ , according to the word prized by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. But Evaldo Rosa dos Santos, a musician, probably did not have the skin color expected of a „good citizen“ in the eyes of the police. He was black. And he was killed Sunday, April 7, 80 shots fired by a dozen military police in Rio de Janeiro. A burr of unreal proportions. An „incident“, clumsily reacted Jair Bolsonaro, Friday, April 12 affirming: „The army is the people. We can not accuse the people of murder. There was an incident. A dead person. We regret that he is an honest worker. “
This Sunday, Evaldo Rosa dos Santos went with her father-in-law, wife, 7-year-old son and a friend to a „baby cha“, a tea to celebrate the arrival of a future birth, when military fired a burst of fire, „by mistake,“ they say. The man was traveling in a white Ford Ka that would have been confused with a vehicle stolen a few minutes earlier by delinquents, a Honda City. Another model, another brand …
Loss of control
„When the soldiers started firing, my aunt took my cousin on my lap and showed that the car was that of a family, but they still continued shooting,“ said one of the nephews of the family. victim interviewed by the newspaper Extra . After claiming to respond to an attack, the troops acknowledged their misconduct as “ disproportionate and without justification“ by the investigating inspector. Justice to order the detention of soldiers.
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Sign of the total loss of control of the police, the tragedy has stirred up excitement among the population but also embarrassment at the top of the state. The absurd shooting weakens the speech of Jair Bolsonaro, former captain of the army who repeats like a mantra that „a good bandit is a dead bandit“ . It also undermines the justice minister, Sergio Moro, who intends to make vote by Congress a series of controversial „anti-crime“ measures including excuses for police officers killing under the „fear, surprise or violent emotion.
