PM from São Paulo removes agents who carried man tied by rope

The Military Police of São Paulo removed from operational activities six police officers who carried a man with his feet and hands tied by a rope. According to the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP), the man was arrested red handed for theft in a supermarket in Vila Mariana. The video of the approach, which circulates on social networks, shows the man with his hands tied to his feet, so that he could not walk, being carried by two military police officers (PMs). The agents carry the boy holding him by the rope and shirt. Still tied up, he is placed in the trunk of a car. According to the SSP, an investigation was launched to determine the circumstances relating to the actions of the agents involved in the episode. The secretariat reported that the preventive removal of the police occurred because “the actions are at odds with the institution’s standard operating procedures.” The images recorded by the portable operational cameras used by the police were inserted as evidence in the investigation records. Father Júlio Lancelotti, from São Miguel Arcanjo Parish, in Mooca, said that this is not an isolated action. “It is a permanent, continuous, recurring action by the Military Police. This is how the Military Police treat the poor and black people”, highlighted the priest, who carries out pastoral work with homeless people and abandoned minors. He pointed out that this is a common practice that has always existed and is a systematic form of action, but that this time it was filmed, recorded inside a UPA (emergency care unit. “This is what we have seen: the poor , blacks are treated with cruelty, as if we were still in the period of enslavement.” The Secretariat of Public Security reported that the author of the images was taken to the police station, where he questioned the procedure adopted by the PMs and was registered as part of the registration of the occurrence at the 27th DP. “The police authority requested the images recorded by the party’s cell phone and [as] will attach to the investigation,” he added. Questioned about the man’s passage through the emergency care unit, the city of São Paulo said it had requested from the authorities “a complete investigation of the facts under the terms of the legislation in force”. The city hall did not say whether a man was attended to at the unit, or whether an employee called the Military Police.

Agência Brasil