Brazil Confronts Deadly Police Raids, Feminicide Arrests, and Abuse Allegations

Overview

• In Salvador, a police–suspect shootout early Friday in Engenho Velho da Federação left an 11-year-old dead and her aunt wounded, with homicide detectives and ballistic tests now tasked with tracing the shots.
• Alagoas’s security agency reported that four men died in a Bope raid in Maceió on Friday after they fired on officers, while families said the victims were asleep and denied any exchange of gunfire.
• In Guarulhos, police arrested Anderson Pereira da Encarnação late Friday on suspicion of killing his ex-partner Sara de Lima and shooting her daughter, with the case recorded as feminicide and attempted feminicide.
• Jiu-jitsu coach Melqui Galvão remains in custody under a São Paulo court order as the CBJJ and IBJJF barred him from all events following allegations of sexual abuse involving minors.
• In Uberaba, prosecutors filed a criminal complaint on Thursday seeking to try a municipal guard for feminicide and to strip him of his public post and custody of his eight-year-old daughter.