The violent shame of Brazilian police officers

[Rachel Divine]

Graphic images have emerged of a badly beaten transgender prisoner amid reports police 'pulverized' her face, forced her to strip and shaved her head.
Pictures show Veronica Bolina lying partially naked on the ground in front of a group of officers and other prisoners in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The 25-year-old had previously been arrested over an alleged attack on her 73-year-old neighbour.
An official police statement claimed Bolina was attacked by prisoners when she was seen performing a sex act on herself in her cell and that officers were forced to intervene.
It added that the injuries were the result of a struggle in which, police claim, she bit an officer on the ear.

The photos of her badly swollen eyes and mouth have been widely shared on the internet with outraged supporters setting up campaign groups on the internet demanding the right for LGBT people to be treated fairly.
One supporter, Susane Montalvo Sarabia, said: 'It is just sickening that in this day and age such things as this still happen.
'They have pulverised that poor woman's face and are now trying to cover it up. Whether she is innocent, guilty, transgender or straight doesn't matter.
'The police should not be allowed to do this to anyone.'
Authorities in Sao Paulo say they are now investigating the matter.
A spokesman for the prosecutors office said she had been moved to a detention centre where she has an individual cell until the court case.


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[ana massage]

That is just horrible....

[nonpareil]

Consider yourself lucky if by total random chance you were born in N. We. Europe in recent decades.

[mature abby]

Shocking x

[Rachel Divine]

Consider yourself lucky if by total random chance you were born in N. We. Europe in recent decades.

Are you saying it is the country/mentality's fault?

[Devastator]

Consider yourself lucky if by total random chance you were born in N. We. Europe in recent decades.

really? Is that because police brutality does not exist in Europe during recent decades? *Waves from N.Ireland*

[nonpareil]

really? Is that because police brutality does not exist in Europe during recent decades? *Waves from N.Ireland*

Fuck all police brutality here compared to most of the world.
You take yourself down to Central/South America with a nice bag of drugs, get yourself put in prison and as an "Anglo" you' d be very lucky to come out alive.Some of those prisons the guards shut the gates and the interior is run by gangs.
A few years ago there were stories of Brazilian police shooting street children for money at the behest of local business men.
Irish people South and now North don't realise how relatively peaceful and safe this island really is.

[nonpareil]

really? Is that because police brutality does not exist in Europe during recent decades? *Waves from N.Ireland*

I am talking about now not the 70' s or eighties.
The two tribes of dopes up there have their best chance to in a century to finally live together in peace and concentrate on things like the economy, if they choose not to wreck their opportunity.

[Meursault]

some of the prisons in south america, guatemala and places like that would make mountjoy look like a coffee shop

[nonpareil]

really? Is that because police brutality does not exist in Europe during recent decades? *Waves from N.Ireland*

If you were born in recent decades , it means you are living NOW.April 2015.