“My daughter will never want to sleep there again,” the unidentified mother later told journalists, heavy blood trails visible behind her.

Rio de Janeiro’s bloody war on crime continues amidst a deepening COVID-19 crisis

A policeman was among those killed in the early morning raid on Jacarezinho, on Rio’s north side, where residents awoke to explosions, heavy gunfire and helicopters overhead.

A week before the death of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis in May, Brazilians were mourning one of their own.

Across the United States, the debate over the future of policing is gathering steam.

There were fewer murders in Brazil’s second city of Rio de Janeiro last year – but the number of killings by police has soared.