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Covid‐19, Policing and (Anti)Fascism in Brazil

Covid‐19, Policing and (Anti)Fascism in Brazil City & Society Susana Durão, UNICAMP (State University of Campinas, São Paulo) Evandro Cruz Silva, UNICAMP Wellynton Samuel Oliveira de Souza, UNICAMP The death of poor black teenagers – such as João Pedro, shot 70 times by police officers on May 18, 2020 in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro – once again opened the Pandora’s box of Brazil’s justice apparatus, specifically in its main cities. Due to recurring controversial cases of the police posing an additional danger to the population in Covid-19 times, on the 100th day of the epidemic Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court created an injunction prohibiting police operations in poor communities in Rio de Janeiro. The police are subordinate to the state governments, but due to the country’s current political chaos, the Supreme Federal Court has taken the lead in many decisions, moving into the crosshairs of criticism from the executive powers. This time, the court decreed that police operations can only take place in “absolutely exceptional cases”, following requests to the Public Ministry from governors and police commanders for exceptional action. In a follow-up report on the first two weeks of the judicial order’s effect, it was estimated that the decrease in police operations in Rio’s http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

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City & Society Susana Durão, UNICAMP (State University of Campinas, São Paulo) Evandro Cruz Silva, UNICAMP Wellynton Samuel Oliveira de Souza, UNICAMP The death of poor black teenagers – such as João Pedro, shot 70 times by police officers on May 18, 2020 in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro – once again opened the Pandora’s box of Brazil’s justice apparatus, specifically in its main cities. Due to recurring controversial cases of the police posing an additional danger to the population in Covid-19 times, on the 100th day of the epidemic Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court created an injunction prohibiting police operations in poor communities in Rio de Janeiro. The police are subordinate to the state governments, but due to the country’s current political chaos, the Supreme Federal Court has taken the lead in many decisions, moving into the crosshairs of criticism from the executive powers. This time, the court decreed that police operations can only take place in “absolutely exceptional cases”, following requests to the Public Ministry from governors and police commanders for exceptional action. In a follow-up report on the first two weeks of the judicial order’s effect, it was estimated that the decrease in police operations in Rio’s

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Published: Apr 1, 2021

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