{"id":19043,"date":"2019-11-21T15:07:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T15:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=19043"},"modified":"2019-11-22T17:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T17:35:42","slug":"ngos-ask-prosecutor-general-to-take-action-against-congressman-daniel-silveira-for-racist-comments","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/ngos-ask-prosecutor-general-to-take-action-against-congressman-daniel-silveira-for-racist-comments\/","title":"Ngos ask prosecutor general to take action against congressman Daniel Silveira for racist comments","content":"

On the eve of Black Awareness Day, Federal Congressman Daniel Silveira, of the conservative Social Liberal Party (PSL), declared in a speech at a full session of the Lower House of Congress, that the high murder rates of the black population are the result of the fact that \u201cmore blacks are involved in crime\u201d. The comments were made in response to an exhibition that presented data on the genocide of the black population in Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n

Silveira contested the data from Ipea (Institute of Applied Economic Research) that were presented in one of the pieces in the exhibition on the rates of black people killed in confrontations with the police. The congressman said that he had had the \u201cpleasure and the displeasure\u201d to work in all the favelas in Rio de Janeiro and that, if more black people die, then it is because there are \u201cmore black people with guns, more black people involved in crime and more black people in confrontation with the police\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement released on November 20, civil society organization members of the RJC (Criminal Justice Network) condemned the racist comments made by the congressman and asked the Office of the Prosecutor General to take the appropriate criminal and civil actions. \u201cWe need public authorities who are committed to ending racism, not its reproduction and normalization,\u201d reads the document.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to data from the Brazilian Public Security Forum, 75% of the victims of deadly violence in Brazil are black. Black youth are killed more frequently than white youth, as are black police officers, who make up 37% of the police ranks but represent 51.7% of officers who are killed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides Conectas, the other member organizations of the RJC also signed the statement: Cesec, Gajop, Instituto Sou da Paz, IDDD, ITTC, Justi\u00e7a Global and IDDH.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the statement in full here<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>

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