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Street vendor executed after police killed Senegalese man in São Paulo; ‘We live in a pressure cooker’, workers say

Edineide Rodrigues was killed months after testifying in an accusation about how the militia works in the Brás district

Sixteen days after a military police officer killed Senegalese worker Ngagne Mbaye in the Brás district, São Paulo, Edineide Aparecida Rodrigues, a street vendor who used to work in the same area, was shot in the head in front of her house. Months earlier, she had testified to the Civil Police about a militia and extortion scheme at the Feira da Madrugada [Dawn Fair, in a rough translation] in Brás. She was a state-protected witness.

Three days after Edineide’s murder, a committee of street vendors formed from the protests against Ngagne’s death arrived at São Paulo City Hall. It was the eve of Workers’ Day and the meeting with the deputy mayor, Military Police Colonel Mello Araújo (Liberal Party), had been scheduled in advance. Of the group, with Brazilian nationals and immigrants, only four people were allowed in, only to be told that Mello Araújo had left. They left without an agreed-upon meeting date.

In Brás, a line of dozens of police officers forms and crosses Concórdia Square, their hands on their weapons. The uniforms are from the Military Police, but they are paid for by the city government. Under so-called Operation Delegada, they work for the municipality while off duty for the state government. A few meters ahead, tents are being dismantled at speed.

Unable to get out in time, a Black woman is surrounded by police officers. She notices the reporter’s camera, which inhibits the violence. Haughtily, she slowly puts the products on a trolley and leaves. On the corner, another woman sits on the ground and cries, saying she can’t take it anymore, that they – street vendors – can’t work and that her African friend was killed in front of her. That’s an ordinary day in Brás.

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Militias Are Recruiting Off of the Trump Shooting

“You can sit and enjoy the show,” wrote the leader of a Kentucky militia on Facebook. “Or you can join it. There will come a time, you will

Of course they are. Sigh.

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Dan Nan Ambassagou - ethnic Dogon militia🇲🇱

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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn

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States Are Cracking Down On Militias — Except For Idaho

In a bucolic corner of southwestern Vermont, locals have been disturbed for years by a neighbor’s weekend hobby: running a paramilitary trai

You just have to ask yourself how well-regulated they are...