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1) Massacre in Paraisópolis community, São Paulo, Brazil.
None of the news in English is accurate. Those slightly closer to the brutal reality are written in poor English. Let's start with this one and add facts, context and other items.
#Paraisópolis
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None of the news in English is accurate. Those slightly closer to the brutal reality are written in poor English. Let's start with this one and add facts, context and other items.
#Paraisópolis
scmp.com/news/world/ame…
2) Information available to local and international audiences:
- the military police was chasing suspects
- suspects ran towards a street funk party
- violent or threatening actions from the police caused a stampede
- nine people were killed by the stampede
- the military police was chasing suspects
- suspects ran towards a street funk party
- violent or threatening actions from the police caused a stampede
- nine people were killed by the stampede
3) There are several alternative versions of this account. Since I worked in a sports social project there, every day, many hours each day, I think you are all being misinformed. Witnesses say they are sure actual fires were shot, not just rubber bullets (that are not harmless).
