Brazil police killed 11,000 in 6 years, says rights group

POLICE in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, a report has claimed.

Brazil police killed 11,000 in 6 years, says rights group

Few officers have been charged over the extrajudicial killings, which are often labelled in Brazilian police reports as the deaths of suspects who resisted arrest, the report by Human Rights Watch said.

The declaration echoes a 2008 UN finding that police in Brazil were responsible for a “significant portion” of 48,000 killings the year before.

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