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Security & Strategic Review - July 2020
BRAZIL: Police violence under scrutiny, but unchanged
The protests against police violence and systemic racism that erupted in the US in late May - after George Floyd, a black man, was killed by a white policeman - immediately resonated in Brazil, where racial prejudice underpins the socio-economic order, and police forces kill around six times more people per year than those in the US. Long-standing demands for justice and change from Brazil’s black and mixed-race population have suddenly gained more visibility – as have the excessive violence and systemic injustices from which they suffer.
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