The increase in cases of police violence in the Brazilian state of Sao Pauloamong them that of man arrested who was thrown from bridge by officersparked outrage and forced the regional government on Tuesday to promise sanctions.
The video of the incident, broadcast by the television channel Globe and recorded early Monday morning, shows how a regional police officer He grabs a man by the legs and throws him over the bridge fence.a few meters from two other patrolling colleagues who are observing the scene. Authorities have not released the man’s condition.
This case joins other abuses that occurred in the past monthlike that of a man who was shot a dozen times in the back by a police officer after trying to steal cleaning products from a supermarket in the city of São Paulo, as shown in videos published by Brazilian media.
🚨 Police joga homem de ponte em SP during boarding
A video shows the military police jogando a homem of a ponte in the southern zone of São Paulo. The incident occurred early in the morning of the 2nd, not near Vila Clara. Or it could be a motorcyclist who fled a collision in Diadema.… pic.twitter.com/O7npSMRX1q
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The agent, who was on break and not wearing a uniform, was at the supermarket checkout paying for some purchases, when the man ran in front of him to leave the establishment and, the second one, took out a gun and shot him.
The “ombudsman” of the regional police, Cláudio da Silva, denounced this Tuesday in a press release that the cases show the “lack of control” of the security forcesprotected by a “feeling of impunity“.
Da Silva called for the officers to be suspended and said he would request footage from the body cameras they wore to clarify what happened, although he admitted such measures might not be effective given the authoritarian security policy of the regional government.
In the same spirit, the NGO Human rights monitoring He called the videos “very shocking” and called for those involved to be held accountable.
The governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, who defended a tough policy against crime and minimized on other occasions complaints of police abuse, he declared this Tuesday on social networks that these cases would be the subject of a “rigorous and sanctioned” investigation.
“A police officer is on the street to fight against delinquency and make people feel safer; he who shoots in the back, he who goes so far as to throw a person from the top of a bridge is not obviously not up to the task of using the uniform,” said this ally of former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
Also earlier this month, Ryan, a four year old boy playing in the street in a poor neighborhood in the city of Santos, He died after being shot in the abdomen during a police operation.
The Security Secretariat said the agents were defending themselves against shots fired by a gang of suspected criminals involved in drug trafficking, although Ryan’s family told EFE that there had been no shooting. such shots.
A total of 768 people died between January and November of this year during police operations60% more than the same period last year and the highest number of victims since 2020.
