BRASIL: Questions Raised About 11,000+ Police Killings.

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Human Rights Watch raises troubling questions about the more than 11,000 people Rio and Sao Paulo police have killed since 2003 in the fight against drug-trafficking gangs. Most are reported as “resistance” killings that occur when police officers return fire in self-defense. But a two-year investigation of 51 killings found evidence that police officers often took steps to cover up the nature of the deaths.