{"id":28405,"date":"2020-11-26T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/noticias\/supreme-court-orders-rio-de-janeiro-government-to-explain-increase-in-killings-by-police\/"},"modified":"2021-04-01T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:40:51","slug":"supreme-court-orders-rio-de-janeiro-government-to-explain-increase-in-killings-by-police","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/supreme-court-orders-rio-de-janeiro-government-to-explain-increase-in-killings-by-police\/","title":"Supreme Court orders Rio de Janeiro government to explain increase in killings by police","content":"

Supreme Court Justice Edson Fachin on Thursday, November 26, gave the state government of Rio de Janeiro a period of five days to explain the reasons for ignoring a court order to <\/span>suspend police operations<\/b> for the duration of the health emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his order<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Fachin has requested the justifications presented by the state government to the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office for carrying out at least <\/span>nine police operations<\/b> that resulted in <\/span>18 people killed and four injured<\/b>. The Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office was also instructed to report on the investigations conducted to date on the deaths resulting from the police intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n

The order was given in response to a complaint filed to the Supreme Court on November 6 by civil society organizations, social movements from the state\u2019s favelas, mothers of victims of police violence and the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB). In the complaint, the organizations asked that the <\/span>interim governor of Rio de Janeiro, Claudio Castro, and the State Military Police and Civil Police be required <\/b>to explain the police actions that occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the petition to the Supreme Court from society civil in full<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

According to a study conducted by the Rio de Janeiro State Public Defender\u2019s Office and civil society groups, between the months of August and October there were police operations in Morro dos Macacos, Morro da Coroa, Jacarezinho, Manguinhos, Lins de Vasconcelos and the Mar\u00e9 favela complex, all in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and also outside the state capital in Viradouro (Niter\u00f3i), KM 32 (Nova Igua\u00e7u) and Mangueirinha (Duque de Caxias).<\/span><\/p>\n

The request was submitted to the Supreme Court following a police operation in the Mar\u00e9 complex, on October 27, in which a four-month pregnant woman lost her baby after being shot. According to an inquiry conducted by the NGO Redes da Mar\u00e9 based on the reports of neighbors, there was no confrontation when the young woman was shot. She was standing at the door to her house and was rescued by the local residents. Redes da Mar\u00e9 claims that the police officers responsible for the shooting picked up the cartridges and cleaned the bloodstains, in non-compliance with the Supreme Court\u2019s order requiring the preservation of crime scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since June, after the ruling by Justice Fachin that was ratified in August by a full session of the Supreme Court, police operations have been suspended for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic, except in absolutely exceptional cases that must be properly justified in writing by the competent authority and notified immediately to the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office of the state of Rio de Janeiro.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe increase in police operations illustrates the widespread non-compliance with the rulings of the Supreme Court, which poses a risk to the important achievements that have saved hundreds of lives over the last few months,\u201d said the organizations in the petition to the court. \u201cWe intend to show this court the severity of the explicit escalation in armed confrontation, with immeasurable consequences for the black population that is disproportionately exposed to state violence,\u201d continued the petition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Escalation of police violence<\/b><\/p>\n

According to information from ISP (Public Security Institute) in Rio de Janeiro, the number of people killed by police officers in October was the second highest for the month since records began 23 years ago. A total of 145 people died in the month.<\/span><\/p>\n

The increase in killings by the police was mirrored by an increase in the number of police operations. A report by GENI\/UFF (Study Group of New Illegalisms of the Fluminense Federal University) identified the increase in the number of police operations in October in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro – there were 38 operations in October compared to 19 in September.<\/span><\/p>\n

The increase in killings by the police was accompanied by an increase in other indicators of violence, which also reversed the downward trend seen in previous months. According to the report by GENI\/UFF, based on ISP data, between the months of September and October, crimes against life increased by 55% in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, with a notable increase of 20% in premeditated murders. Property crimes registered an increase of 9%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unprecedented case in the Supreme Court<\/b><\/p>\n

Known as the \u201cFavelas Case\u201d, the\u00a0ADPF (Allegation of Violation of a Fundamental Precept) No. 635, is a lawsuit proposed by the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) and jointly drafted by the Public Defender\u2019s Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro and the organizations Educafro, Justi\u00e7a Global, Redes da Mar\u00e9, Conectas Direitos Humanos, Movimento Negro Unificado, Iser, IDMJR, Coletivo Papo Reto, Coletivo Fala Akari, Rede de Comunidades and Movimento contra a Viol\u00eancia, M\u00e3es de Manguinhos, all of which have been recognized as amici curiae in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Favelas Case calls for the\u00a0<\/span>gross violations caused by the public security policy<\/b>\u00a0of the state of Rio de Janeiro against the black and poor population of the urban outskirts and favelas to be recognized and remedied.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/div>","excerpt":"

In response to a petition by NGOs and social movements, Justice Fachin gives the state government five days to provide justifications for staging poli…<\/p>\n","author":2,"featured_media":28406,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[12375,13,232,194],"tema":[12270],"class_list":["post-28405","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-favelas-case","tag-second-tag","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-supreme-court","tema-confronting-institutional-violence"],"acf":{"subtitle-pt":"In response to a petition by NGOs and social movements, Justice Fachin gives the state government five days to provide justifications for staging police actions during the pandemic","author":false},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"featured_image":{"original":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1.jpg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1-966x644.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1-768x576.jpg","large":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1-1024x768.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1-1536x1153.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1-2048x1537.jpg","post_slider_img":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1-350x263.jpg","storyform_xlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1-1023x768.jpg","storyform_xxlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1-1439x1080.jpg","storyform_xxxlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1-2399x1800.jpg","noticia":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Policiais_ocupam_Complexo_do_Alemao-scaled-1-1140x760.jpg"},"terms":{"acoes_categorias":[],"acoes_tags":[],"category":[{"term_id":7,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1519,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/category\/news\/","relative_link":"category\/news\/","langs":{"en":"news","br":"noticia-conectas"}}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":12375,"name":"Favelas Case","slug":"favelas-case","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12375,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/favelas-case\/","relative_link":"tag\/favelas-case\/","langs":{"en":"favelas-case","br":null}},{"term_id":13,"name":"police violence","slug":"second-tag","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":13,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":94,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/second-tag\/","relative_link":"tag\/second-tag\/","langs":{"en":"second-tag","br":"violencia-policial"}},{"term_id":232,"name":"Rio de Janeiro","slug":"rio-de-janeiro","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":232,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":33,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/rio-de-janeiro\/","relative_link":"tag\/rio-de-janeiro\/","langs":{"en":"rio-de-janeiro","br":null}},{"term_id":194,"name":"Supreme court","slug":"supreme-court","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":194,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":51,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/supreme-court\/","relative_link":"tag\/supreme-court\/","langs":{"en":"supreme-court","br":null}}]},"author_name":"Leonardo Medeiros","author_nicename":"leonardo-medeiros","protected":false,"langs":{"en":"supreme-court-orders-rio-de-janeiro-government-to-explain-increase-in-killings-by-police","br":"stf-intima-governo-do-rj-a-explicar-aumento-da-letalidade-policial"},"permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/supreme-court-orders-rio-de-janeiro-government-to-explain-increase-in-killings-by-police\/","relative_url":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/supreme-court-orders-rio-de-janeiro-government-to-explain-increase-in-killings-by-police\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/28405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28405"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=28405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}