5 murdered per day by police actions on October in Salvador and Metropolitan Region, Brazil
Police violence increased in October in Salvador and Metropolitan Region. These areas already suffered high rates of police violence, but now it increases even more. Four were the most reported execution by the local press, meanwhile residents and relatives of the victims carried out protests to rightly point the civil and military police as the responsible.
The murdered are youth between 17 and 19 years old from a proletarian neighborhood. All the murders took place while the youths were in their neighborhood, without being any threat. For example 17-year-old Kauê was shot to death when the police approached him at early hours while he was coming back home. 19-year-old Lucas Alves da Silva died after an operation of the Civil Police. In the case of the murder of Kleber Timóteo da Paixão Nascimento and 18-year-old Alex Silton, it was cowardly stated that there was a “confrontation with the military police” and a “confrontation between police officers and armed men” respectively. But families denied it quickly, for example Silton was in the street were he lived before receiving three shots in the head.
After the murders, families and residents of the area protested against police violence which was being systematically done in the neighborhood. Denounces on the press media were done, barricades were set and buses set ablaze. Also, after last case denounced, that was Rodrigo Santos, truck driver of the area, residents and relatives blocked the main avenue in protest of the police action that resulted in his murder.
Residents denounce that officers of the 37th Independent Company of the Military Police (CIPM) steal in shops, invades houses without judicial order and threats residents. Clearly, the police brutality in the area is rising, with 14 murdered people by arms each 24 hours in Salvador and Metropolitan Region the first 16 days of October. Among them, five died in police actions, what is a 31,57% more than last year.
