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Reality on Film in Brazil

By Randinho, Section Diaries
Posted on Sat Oct 13, 2007 at 11:50:45 PM EST
Tags: Police Brutality (all tags)
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I love City of God, Fernando Meirelles' brilliant look at life in the eponymous favela. One thing that it it paid little attention to, however, was the role of the police. Just released in Brazil is a new film titled Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad) and as Alexei Barrionuevo notes, it confronts this issue directly.

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Phoenix airport fatality

By Michael Gass, Section Diaries
Posted on Mon Oct 01, 2007 at 06:41:42 PM EST
Tags: police brutality, fatality (all tags)
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The NY Daily News has this story about a woman who was arrested in a Phoenix airport and then later was found dead in the holding cell (more coverage is found here).

So, how could this happen?

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