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On the afternoon of Tuesday, March 17,
the AND team was at the Manguinhos slum in northern Rio
to investigate a complaint that a young man died after being electrocuted
with a tazer gun used by a police officer of the Pacifying Police Unit.
Since January this year, the Manguinhos complex is occupied by a PPU.
Witnesses of the last moments
of life of young Mateus Casé Oliveira, 17,
talked to our reporters and blamed the police for the teenager's death
He would have entered cardiac arrest after being tazed.
Seeked by our crew,
the command of the PPU said the young man had tripped and hit his head.
- the police truck stopped, and threw the .. (What was the name..?)
- pepper spray
- pepper spray, gave him a shock, he fell at the spot, on his head.
When I went to pour milk over him he was already dead.
When I took him to the hospital the doctor said he was dead.
- He died there on the floor,
when I went to give him the milk,
he gave his last breath, hen he got all purple and cold;
when he arrived at the hospital he was already dead,
had already died on the ground.
- Gotta take it to justice...
- Is it right for the PPU to do this?
Relatives of the victim's grandmother said that Matheus was unable to speak.
The victim's great-aunt cried sitting in an alley.
Another aunt of Matheus, said the family will fight for justice.
- I was at my job when my daughter called,
telling me that he had been killed by police.
When I arrived at my mother's house she was in absolute despair.
Why? Because the police caught him,
id what they did with to him and left,
and said the doctor at UPA killed him, not them.
It was them, there are several proofs,
but as we are from the slum, we are worthless,
and this and that, they shouted loudly for everyone to hear
how we were squatter, and our *** duty was to stay home.
My mom can not be here to give her testimony because the moment she is very ill,
but we will not let this go, we will seek justice,
When we reached the slum, our team was faced with a scenario of rebellion.
On one side residents outraged by the *** of Matheus.
On the other, PPU officers, throwing bombs against the population.
- Son of a ***, that's the people ...Look, they're shooting...
According to reports, the day before,
residents also rose against the routine of terror imposed by PPU officers,
as Record's story showed - aired while our team was in Manguinhos.
On that day, residents said police violence made victims,
including a four month old child.
An outraged mother said her daughter nearly died suffocated by the pepper spray.
- She was in her bed here, she was in her bed,
then he came, he came here to use pepper spray, thinking that this is home to some thug,
this is no thug's house, my husband has job and is at work,
yeah, and my daughter almost died,
if not for a neighbor who saved her, she would be dead.
The young man who appeared being beaten by policemen in Record's footage,
was also arrested.
After his release, the boy was angry and spoke with our reporter.
- And then we minors, long time in here,
then they want to come and wanna impose on others ,yeah?
That is not right.
My feeling?
Fuuuck, better keep it to myself.
Another resident says that her salon was raided by policemen
who fired pepper spray against her and her clients.
- A damn fussle out there,
I was with my employee standing here, looking, right?
Because I'm not blind, I have to see what is happening around me.
Me and my 3 year old godson.
- There came the police,
chased the boys who were doing the demonstration,
one of them came into my parking lot,
pepper sprayed in my face, look.
- Almost left me blind, this part of my face was all burnt.
Unfortunately I need my sight to work.
So it happens, I was not picking on them,
but I think it is not fair for them to come into my store
and give me trouble, do you understand?
Want some trouble, go give trouble to who is messing with them,
I'm here to earn my livelihood.
Aren't they just working? I'm also working.
Is it fair for they to walk in here and pepper spray me and my godson in the face?
And then they want respect?
ou give respect to the ones who deserve respect,
so they gotta respect to be respected, you know what I mean?
- I'm in my property, don't want no mess here,
the problem is with them outside,
I don't want their *** inside the store,
that's all I have to say to you.
Residents accused officers of violently interrupting parties
and indiscreetly using drugs within the slum.
- they were having a children's party,
the father put on some funk music,
not a single curse word in it, no gangsta talk,
you know what happened?
They took a bomb and dropped it at the table where the cake was,
finished the party right there,
because of one song, one song and they ended the party.
One song.
- I smelled marijuana, melled some marijuana coming,
when I looked, four "pigs",
I don't know if all four were smoking,
but there was definetly one smoking,
I don't know about the others.
- snorting, they were snorting coke right there. They do it all.
The brother of a young man shot by police and arrested arbitrarily,
Wanderley spoke with our reporter
and said he and his father are being threatened by police.
Both are committed to the immediate release of the young Fernando
and, increasingly, stand out in making public the wrongdoings by the PPU in the slum.
- They've alredy threatened me,
told me if they catch me at night on the street,
said they will kill me.
They said they will kill my father if they catch him alone at night.
Because they know that this is harming them.
- Sergio Cabral said he would put a police force prepared to serve and protect,
but they are not serving and protecting,
they are oppressing us.
I'll even make a shirt that goes:
Pacification or Oppression,
and I'll put a big question mark with red print,
for him to see, man, the indignation.
They *** up with my brother,
wanted to justify with him
because he'd already been in trouble with the police,
and so on, to clean their image.
But now I wanna see,
and if this shot, that shot that took my brother
could have been with a child,
and if it hits a child, then what would their justification be?
This is going to Youtube, man,
we have to post this on facebook and twitter,
Tradução: Alessandra Devecchi, Christian Dechery e Dan Flict Legedagem: Ana Lúcia Nunes