The death of a young man this Monday (18) provoked a large protest by residents, in several streets of Lapa, in the early evening, in Rio de Janeiro. The boy, identified as Emanuel Ramos, was shot by a civil police officer inside a large house on Rua Joaquim Silva.
The Civil Police reported, in a statement, that the young man reacted to an approach, which was denied by residents and people passing by at the time. With Emanuel Ramos a simulacrum of a firearm was found. The young man’s neighbors and acquaintances protested, setting fire to barricades on the main streets of Lapa, which forced the closure of traffic and caused great congestion in the area, very busy in the late afternoon and route to dozens of bus lines.
Military Police were called to disperse the protests and had to use stun bombs and tear gas. Civil Police expertise went to the scene, but the young man’s body had been taken by his own family to a hospital. Several people shouted that it was a crime of racism.
According to Civil Police, the victim had criminal records and a second suspect managed to escape.
“According to the 5th DP (Mem de Sá), police officers were in diligence to fulfill an arrest warrant in Lapa, when a man – with several criminal records and an open arrest warrant – reacted, was shot and died. A firearm simulacrum was seized from the criminal. A second suspect fled. The Capital Homicide Police Station (DHC) was called and the incident is ongoing,” the police said in the note.
