New governor promised ‘slaughter’ of gangsters, drawing comparisons with bloody Philippines drug war
The residents were chatting outside when the police helicopter swooped over the polluted river at the end of their street in Rio’s sprawling Maré favela complex. They fled as the officers riding in it fired volleys of bullets during a raid to catch a renegade gang boss.
Controlled by two rival drug gangs and a small paramilitary group, this roughshod community has grown used to violence and gunfights. But the police response was extreme even by those standards.
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