HRW commends Brazilian bid to curb police killings

[police brutality]

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Human Rights Watch has praised a resolution by Brazil's Human Rights Defense Council outlining steps to reduce extrajudicial killings by police. In a statement Thursday, the New York-based organization says Brazilian police routinely "engage in unlawful violence, executing people and falsely claiming they died in shootouts." In a 2009 report, the ...

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