Brazil: Mock Funeral Protests Police Deaths

On Rio’s Copacabana Beach, an NGO that usually protests police brutality staged a mock funeral on Human Rights Day to draw attention to police deaths in the city. They say that 61 police officers were killed this year, 40 of them outside working hours. The Head of the Rio de Paz NGO said that police officers are often ill-equipped to form heavily armed drug gangs and that “human rights doesn’t take sides.” teleSUR