Images from the body cameras of the military police and the security system of a building revealed that Robson Rodrigo Francisco was already handcuffed during the moment of his arrest, when he was tied by ropes with his arms and legs behind him, so that he could not stand or sit. The videos, along with a witness record, were gathered and released by G1. One of the policemen tightens the bindings, leaving hands and feet close together, behind the boy’s body, at hip height. In the video taken by a witness, when the suspect was taken to an Emergency Care Unit (UPA), it is possible to see Robson on the ground, while the police officers are standing. Afterwards, the boy is dragged across the floor by one of the agents into a room. Afterwards, Robson is carried by two military police officers, who hold him by the rope and shirt. Still tied up, he is placed in the trunk of a car. The images from the police officers’ body cameras have already been included in the investigation and are available for consultation by legal bodies, according to information from the SSP on June 16. The Military Police (PM) removed the six agents involved from operational activities and an inquiry was launched to determine the circumstances relating to their actions in the episode. Last Tuesday (20), the Court of Justice of São Paulo accepted a complaint for three crimes against Robson, making him defendant for qualified theft by agents, resistance to arrest and corruption of a minor. The police officers involved in the occurrence of his arrest remain removed from operational activities, with “possible excesses” still being investigated, according to the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP). The São Paulo court has kept Robson in custody since his custody hearing on June 5, when Judge Gabriela Marques da Silva Bertoli understood that there was no torture or ill-treatment against the suspect at the time of the act. The TJ informed, at the time, that the judge did not have access to the images that later spread through social networks. However, the boy’s arrest report already contained information that he had been immobilized with a rope by the police, according to information from the Public Security Secretariat (SSP), in addition to information that a witness would have taken a video. Lawyers from human rights entities heard by Agência Brasil assessed that in no scenario would such conduct by the police during Robson’s arrest be acceptable. The scenes were compared to the period of enslavement and barbarism. Robson’s defense said, in a note, that “the structure of the State is disproportionate in all aspects, when it comes to reprimand, especially the poor, black and socially vulnerable, from their birth to their death.” The note adds that “there is no rehabilitation, there is no second chance. There is punishment without reflection and stigma forever. And the message is clear: vacate our beautiful streets, squares and places of good citizens, and, if necessary, we will tie them up, drag them around and nothing will happen to us”. Lawyer José Luiz de Oliveira Junior informed that, for Justice, the images of the bodycams are irrelevant. “I think it’s absurd, which shows how there are significant inconsistencies to the detriment of a black man, poor and precarious economic conditions in the face of a Justice that doesn’t even touch the subject of the violence practiced against the boy.” “We will do our part as ANAN [Associação Nacional da Advocacia Negra]but we are aware that this is just one case, compared to several others in which everything that happened to their disadvantage is not even considered and observed by what is understood as justice”, he concluded.
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