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Re:Inside the favela too violent for Rio’s armed police by ddorian43 on Sunday January 04, 2015 @04:36PM (#8835953)
... everyone should watch 2 "Elite Squad" movies done on the police that goes inside the favela BOPE (they have skulls as emblems).
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Re:Inside the favela too violent for Rio’s armed police by civilian on Sunday January 04, 2015 @04:44PM (#8835976)
Skulls as emblems... yeah, they occur on uniforms throughout history. There's some discussion to be had about whether the good guys would have skulls on their uniforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImnpErdDzA
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Re:Inside the favela too violent for Rio’s armed police by Giulalbez on Sunday January 04, 2015 @11:26PM (#8837270)
At least in Brazil , it doesn't bring a good feeling, because of "Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq"[1] , a secret killing organization formed by policeman, commonly referred as "Death Squads". They kill poor people for fun. Their emblem was a skull. [1] http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuderie_Detetive_Le_Cocq
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Re:Inside the favela too violent for Rio’s armed police by Crito on Sunday January 04, 2015 @05:36PM (#8836161)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf#Non-German_military
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Re:Inside the favela too violent for Rio’s armed police by elsurudo on Sunday January 04, 2015 @04:53PM (#8836015)
City of God (Cicade de Deus) is a great movie about this, too.
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Re:Inside the favela too violent for Rio’s armed police by icpmacdo on Sunday January 04, 2015 @05:04PM (#8836054)
That movie is in my top ten off all time, also on Netflix! Go watch it!
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Re:Inside the favela too violent for Rio’s armed police by thesis on Sunday January 04, 2015 @09:28PM (#8836827)
Also on Amazon Prime Instant Video -- going to watch it tonight. Thanks!
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Re:Inside the favela too violent for Rio’s armed police by DanBC on Sunday January 04, 2015 @04:42PM (#8835972)
The TV series "City of Men" is also very very good. My boxset version had an eye-opening documentary about polici g the favela. http://imdb.com/title/tt0364801/
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