Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

MILITARY POLICE KILL 24-YEAR-OLD PREGNANT WOMAN DURING POLICE RAID IN RIO DE JANEIRO

Theme(s)
Public security, Race and ethnicity
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism
State
Rio de Janeiro

Read more about it here [1] [2]

Jun 08 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

MILITARY POLICE KILL TWO YOUNG MEN DUE TO THEFT SUSPICION IN THE CITY OF SÃO PAULO

Theme(s)
Militarization, Race and ethnicity
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities
State
São Paulo

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about police brutality in São Paulo amid pandemic here [1] [2]

Jun 09 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

AMAZONAS STATE MILITARY POLICE KILLS AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE AFTER MURDER OF SERGEANT

Theme(s)
Public security, Race and ethnicity
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism
State
Amazonas

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here]

Jun 13 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

POLICE SHOOT 125 TIMES DURING MANHUNT AND KILL FUGITIVE

Theme(s)
Public security, Race and ethnicity
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism
State
Goiás

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about the Lázaro Barbosa manhunt here [1]

Jun 28 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

ONE OF THE BIGGEST REPOSESSIONS IN THE RIO DE JANEIRO STATE TAKES PLACE AMID PANDEMIC

Theme(s)
Housing, Land regularization
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities
State
Rio de Janeiro

Read more about the forced evictions of families amid pandemic here [1] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Jul 01 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Legislative
Power Level
State

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF RONDÔNIA APPROVES NEW DECREASE OF ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION UNITS

Theme(s)
Environment, Indigenous people
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power
State
Rondônia

Read more about the context of deforestation here [2] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Jul 06 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Public Prosecution Office
Power Level
State

INVESTIGATION OF MARIELLE FRANCO AND ANDERSON GOMES’ MURDER STILL FACES OBSTRUCTION AND POSSIBLE INTERFERENCE FROM RIO DE JANEIRO’S PUBLIC PROSECUTION OFFICE THREE YEARS LATER

Theme(s)
Public security, Race and ethnicity
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism
State
Rio de Janeiro

Read more about the latest developments on the investigations here [1] [2] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Jul 10 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Judiciary
Power Level
State

JUDGE ORDERS TAKEDOWN OF ART INSTALLATION WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF HISTORICAL MOMENTS OF THE BRAZILIAN DEMOCRACY

Theme(s)
Artistic freedom, Culture
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies
State
Minas Gerais

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]

Jul 21 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

MILITARY POLICE OF THE STATE OF GOIÁS ASSAULT HANDCUFFED LAWYER

Theme(s)
Prisons, Public security
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism
State
Goiás

Read more about the police brutality in Brazil here [1] [2] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Jul 23 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS DENOUNCE ‘HUNT’ AGAINST ROMA PEOPLE AFTER MILITARY POLICE OFFICER’S DEATHS

Theme(s)
Public security, Race and ethnicity
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism
State
Bahia

Read more about it here [1] and about this episode – in Portuguese [2] [find out here]. The Roma people are historically and globally targets of racism and violence, which only got worse amid the covid-19 pandemic, including in Brazil [3]

Aug 03 2021
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