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December 20, 2019

Number of Killings by Police Soars in Brazil
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In Brazil, the number of people killed by police is soaring. Last year,
the police killed an average of 17 people every single day, according to
official government data. But human rights activists say off-duty and
retired police officers also regularly carry out extrajudicial killings
as part of a state-sanctioned war on crime stoked by Brazilian President
Jair Bolsonaro, who has said criminals should "die like cockroaches."


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