The Judiciary’s omission, given the resistance of São Paulo’s military police officers to using body cameras, and the pardon granted by then President Jair Bolsonaro to those responsible for the Carandiru massacre are at the root of the recent acts of police brutality.
The following comment, written by me, was published on FolhaJus last Tuesday (10).
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Presumption of impunity
When Tarcísio de Freitas promised to remove body cameras, the former PGJ warned. Sectors of the police could understand the act as “true authorization to kill, outside of legal hypotheses.”
The escalation of police violence coincides with two facts: the overturn by , then president of the TJ-SP, of the injunction that forced the use of body cameras on the coast, and Bolsonaro’s pardon for the perpetrators of the Carandiru massacre.
Derrite promised to send “elite troops” from Rota to the interior to “train the police approach”. Read, “neutralize” the suspects.
Tarcísio now claims that he had “a wrong view” about the cameras. Lewandowski considered this attitude “laudable”. The governor was more convincing when he said that “people can go to the UN, they can go to the Justice League, no matter what, I don’t care.”
The PM who beats a wheelchair user; the one who fires 11 shots into the back of a suspect of stealing cleaning products; The person who attacks a 63-year-old woman and the person who throws a man off a bridge must be driven by the same emotion.
The certainty of impunity.
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