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Shooting from above, perhaps the armored helicopter of the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police, led the NGO Redes da Maré to count more than 100 marks of ground shots in two communities in the Maré complex in northern Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday (20).
The initiative came as a form of protest. Residents mobilized to denounce the use of lethal force by airplanes, and the Public Defender even asked the court, without success, to ban this type of resource .
Shots fired by helicopters Police in the Rio communities had already been reported twice this month. At the Maré Complex itself, in an action held on June 11 and at the Cidade de Deus (West Zone), three days earlier, according to researchers at the Intervention Observatory (an independent group created to monitor the work of the security forces during the federal intervention in RJ)
But it is on the 20th that the subject gains visibility. During the operation in Tue, Marcos Vinicius da Silva, 14, died when he was shot on the way to school – in addition to the teenager, six Other men involved in the traffic were killed
The initial hypothesis indicated that Marcos Vinicius could have been hit by one of the shots fired by the police helicopter. Subsequently, however, a report from the IML (Medical-Legal Institute) showed that the shot had pierced the victim's body horizontally.
In the IML, a student mother shows a blood-soaked uniform
Pressed by the denunciations of residents and the repercussion of the case, the the civilian police decided to hold periodic meetings to study the creation of a protocol concerning the use of helicopters in operations After the first meeting, which took place the second (25), the director of specialized police stations the capital, Fábio Barucke, defended the use of aircraft and said that "the helicopter is under no circumstances allowed to expose people to dangers". 19659002] According to him, the police can shoot situations that require self-defense, that is to say, they are attacked, or to guarantee the safety of others (such as hostages) .
With the arrival of the helicopter in a conflict situation, the marginals who stand there against the operations, stop the shooting and eliminate the resistance. Therefore, the use of confrontation is necessary, to eliminate the risks not only for the police and the people.
Fábio Barucke, Director of the Specialized Commissariats of the Capital
Investigator Silvia Ramos, Doctor of Violence and Health of the FGV (Fundação Getúlio Vargas) and member of the Center of Studies on security and citizenship (Universidad Cândido Mendes), the delegate's response concerns the "basic and basic protocol" of the police: However, she baderts that this premise does not apply to situations involving helicopters in the context of repression or control of urban violence.
This is the training rule for all police officers in the country. world: only to engage in self-defense or in defense of third parties. This was not the case with Tide. What we saw, and this was filmed by amateurs, are scenes with obvious evidence to show that there were people inside the helicopter who were firing.
Silvia Ramos,
