9 years ago
In Brazil's slums, residents band together to protest police shootings
It was Holy Thursday, and Udson Freitas was sitting on the balcony of his small house in the Complexo do Alemao favela when a girl ran onto his street below, screaming. "They killed my brother! They killed my brother!" Freitas ran down his steps, and was shocked to see that it was 14-year-old Ana Ferreira, who lived just up the hill from him. It couldn't be possible, he thought. Her brother, Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira, was 10.
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