STF Orders Original Body‑Cam Footage in Rio’s Operation Contenção, Sets 90‑Day Federal Review

Overview

• Justice Alexandre de Moraes directed the State of Rio to deliver all videos in original format with cryptographic hashes and viewing software, and to resend any files that failed to open.
• State officials and Rio’s prosecutors must pinpoint the exact excerpts of interest within roughly 4,500 hours of Military Police recordings to narrow the review.
• The Federal Police will have 90 days to complete forensic work once it receives media it can read, a timeline set to prevent further delay in analyzing the body‑camera footage.
• Prosecutors were cleared to access autopsy reports of those killed to compare injuries with what the videos show and to support possible criminal or disciplinary cases.
• The push follows PF reports that earlier media could not be opened and lacked tools to verify integrity, while the public defender says it still cannot see the videos or reports six months after a raid that left more than 120 people dead.