Thread by @shannongsims

80 shots - *80* - fired by police yesterday at a car with a family inside on their way to a baby shower. Why? Mistaken identity.

Rio can’t become a safe place until criminals AND police are held accountable for their actions. Watching what happens here🧐
g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-jane…

Imagine this happening to a white family driving to a baby shower in Ipanema.

If you can’t imagine it happening, then we start to get to the core of the problem.

The military and police have an impossible job: trying to stop the violence in Rio. I’ve spent a lot of time with police in Brazil, and their work is not something I would ever want to do. But that said, they’ve got to do better. This is not police work, this is criminal.

In this case it was the army, not the local police, who fired on the car. The army has been involved in security operations in Rio for several months now. The idea was to make Rio safer.

A note from @Cecillia to drive home the heartbreak of the system here:
“We’re all concerned, right? But hold on. Remember: the army is who investigates the army.”