Prison-orchestrated attacks in Manaus ordered by CV to avenge police killing of CV leader, "so that you all learn to respect Crime". In CV videos, members call out Pub Security Secretary Bonates by name.

Bonates has history w prison gangs: 🧵👇

portaldoholanda.com.br/manaus/faccao-… Back in mid 2010s, Amazonas didn't have powerful prison gangs. The PCC started making inroads, which led local bosses to form the Familia do Norte (FDN) in response. FDN, allied w CV, repulsed the PCC, took over most of Amazonas, and expanded across North and Northeast.

Lots of speculation that yesterday's massacre in Rio was a deliberate effort help police-linked milícias take over Jacarezinho by softening the Comando Vermelho's long-standing hold on the community.

Plausible, chilling, but not most important. THREAD👇

https://twitter.com/renagalo2/status/1390722600243015685

First, regardless of whether it was deliberate, this police action DOES benefit milicias by weakening the CV directly. If Jacarezinho ends up being taken over by milicias, you can be sure that this operation will have played a part.

Some Criminal Governance fieldwork almost-live-tweeting, at @cblatts suggestion, from João Pessoa, Brasil, where I visited a neighborhood dominated by the Okaida prison gang last week.
THREAD Okaida is one of Brazil's many 'facções' (factions), sophisticated gangs (like the Comando Vermelho and PCC) that arise in prison and come to project power onto the streets. They subsume street gangs into their structure, so that a city's favelas end up divvied btw a few gangs.