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just another bloody day?

ByMauro Pimentel
View of the scene where an alleged drug trafficker was reportedly killed by civil police while trying to escape and ran into the room of a nine-year-old girl who witnessed the shooting, in Jacarezinho favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 6, 2021. – A massive police operation against drug traffickers in a Brazilian favela Thursday left 25 people dead, turning the impoverished Rio de Janeiro neighborhood into a battlefield and drawing condemnation from rights groups. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)
Residentes protest after a police operation against alleged drug traffickers at the Jacarezinho favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 06, 2021. – A massive police operation against drug traffickers in a Brazilian favela Thursday left 25 people dead, turning the impoverished Rio de Janeiro neighborhood into a battlefield and drawing condemnation from rights groups. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP).
Women mourn after seeing the corpse of a victim of a police operation, at the Getulio Vargas Hospital, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 24, 2022. – A police raid in a Rio favela left 11 people dead on Tuesday, authorities said. Police said they came under gun fire as they planned to enter a slum called Vila Cruzeiro in the north of the city with the mission of locating and arresting “criminal leaders.” In the ensuing gunbattle 10 alleged criminals died, as did a female resident of the favela who was hit by a stray bullet. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)
A woman shows the scene where an alleged drug trafficker was reportedly killed by civil police while trying to escape and ran into the room of her nine-year-old daughter who witnessed the shooting, in the Jacarezinho favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 6, 2021. – A massive police operation against drug traffickers in a Brazilian favela Thursday left 25 people dead, turning the impoverished Rio de Janeiro neighborhood into a battlefield and drawing condemnation from rights groups. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)
View of the scene where an alleged drug trafficker was reportedly killed by civil police in Jacarezinho favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 6, 2021. – A massive police operation against drug traffickers in a Brazilian favela Thursday left 25 people dead, turning the impoverished Rio de Janeiro neighborhood into a battlefield and drawing condemnation from rights groups. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)
Residentes protest after a police operation against alleged drug traffickers at the Jacarezinho favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 06, 2021. – A massive police operation against drug traffickers in a Brazilian favela Thursday left 25 people dead, turning the impoverished Rio de Janeiro neighborhood into a battlefield and drawing condemnation from rights groups. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / The corpse of a victim is carried from a truck to a stretcher at the Getulio Vargas Hospital, after a police operation at a favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 24, 2022. – A police raid in a Rio favela left at least 12 people dead on Tuesday, authorities said. Police said they came under gun fire as they planned to enter a slum called Vila Cruzeiro in the north of the city with the mission of locating and arresting “criminal leaders.” In the ensuing gunbattle 11 alleged criminals died, as did a female resident of the favela who was hit by a stray bullet. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A police officer checks a body after a police raid in the neighborhood of Vila Cruzeiro, on Rio de Janeiro’s north side, Brazil, on February 11, 2022. – A police raid on a Rio de Janeiro slum erupted into an intense firefight Friday, leaving eight alleged drug traffickers dead, authorities said. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)
A wounded man arrives on a pick up truck at the Getulio Vargas Hospital, after a police operation at a favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 24, 2022. – A police raid in a Rio favela left 11 people dead on Tuesday, authorities said. Police said they came under gun fire as they planned to enter a slum called Vila Cruzeiro in the north of the city with the mission of locating and arresting “criminal leaders.” In the ensuing gunbattle 10 alleged criminals died, as did a female resident of the favela who was hit by a stray bullet. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)
Residents of the Complexo do Alemao favela carry the corpse of a dead man during a police raid in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 21, 2022. – At least four people died this Thursday during a new police raid against organized crime in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, police and local media reported. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)

Police operations against drug traffickers break record deaths during the government of Jair Bolsonaro. The communities become a battleground we could witness in several cases leaving a trail of blood spread in the houses and streets of favelas all over Rio de Janeiro.

Mauro Pimentel