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Police attack young man with a skateboard It wasn't enough all the aggressiveness with which the Brazilian police treat the population in the last years with rubber bullets and tear gas, police in the state of São Paulo started beating people with other objects such as rocks and even a skateboard. In January, during a manifestation against the increase in bus fares, the state police surrounded a group of protesters who were unarmed and protesting peacefully. After beating in the people with sticks and rubber bullets, cowardly attacked a young man that was isolated from the group, applying blows to the boy's head with a skateboard. The governor was approached by newspapers and magazines but gave no explanation of the fact.

Stray bullet victim is buried in Rio de Janeiro A very common fact in Brazil in the last 10 years is the high number of deaths by stray bullet. Occurring generally in locations near slums and drug points located in large urban centers, these deaths usually affect innocent people passing by at the time of an exchange of fire among cops and robbers or drug dealers. But in recent years, this type of crime has been occurring in middle class neighborhoods and affecting people of higher social classes. It's common nowadays cases of people who were shot in college door, in the shopping center or on the subway exit. What makes matters worse is that Brazilian authorities cannot identify the culprits, who always are kept unpunished.