Yellow alert: Vila Mariana bus burning, clampdown in Cracolânda.
PMs são flagrados ao agredir pessoas durante blitz no centro de SP: residual fallout from last night’s “yellow alert” and bus burning incident.
As I have said before, there are moments when an ostensive police presence and ostentatious policing are hard to tell apart in this crazy town; compare And Speaking of Anti-Crime Crusades.
Policiais militares foram flagrados por um cinegrafista enquanto agrediam pessoas que eram revistadas durante uma blitz na região da cracolândia, centro de São Paulo. A área é conhecida por concentrar usuários de drogas.
Military police were caught on video assaulting persons being stopped and searched during a “blitz” in the Crackland area of downtown São Paulo. The area is known as gathering place for drug users.
And rightly so. But we also have friends living in the region who are bank loan officers and e-commerce nerds who wear Ashleigh Banfield-style deconstructionist eyeglasses.
And then again, I have seen junkies shooting up on the Av. Paulista at high noon, just a few paces from some ostentatious PM cavalry officers. So go figure.
De acordo com as imagens, veiculadas nesta quarta-feira pela Rede Globo, um policial chuta um dos homens e, depois, agride outro, com um chute e um soco. Um outro rapaz que seria revistado foi agredido com diversos socos nas costas.
In the video images, which were broadcast today on the Rede Globo, a policeman is seen kicking two men, and then later assaulting another with a kick and a punch. Another young man being searched is assaulted with various blows on the back.
Ao menos três policiais militares participaram da abordagem. Após as agressões, os PMs queimaram bolsas e mochilas do grupo.
At least three PMs took part in the stop and search. After the assaults, the PMs burned the bags and bagpacks of the group.
Não há confirmação se os homens abordados portavam drogas ou eram suspeitos de crimes. A Folha Online entrou em contato com o setor de Comunicação da Polícia Militar para comentar o fato, mas ainda não obteve retorno.
There has been no confirmation as to whether the men who were stopped were carrying drugs or suspected of crimes. Folha Online contacted the press office of the military police for commented, but has yet to receive a response.
So what else is new? The FO will run just about anything to do with whiz-bang technology, Orkut or YouTube.
Folha Online is a separate newsroom, apparently, from the reportagem local — whom I much prefer.
A friend of ours lives down there, and has been kicking around the idea of starting up a street paper called A Corneta de Cracolândia — the Crackland Bugle.
Start your stop-watches and start counting how long that takes to end up, or not, on YouTube.
Decorative mosaic, Conjunto Nacional (1958) office block and shopping mall, Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil. Sort of the Graybar Bldg. of here.
The New Market Machines 