arhurt Posted November 25, 2010 Report Posted November 25, 2010 The Police in Rio entered a heavily fortified slum in an effort to apprehend drug gang leaders they blame for days of widespread violence in the city. Officers from an elite unit of Rio's police department with support of navy seals armored vehicles made it into the Vila Cruzeiro slum despite efforts by drug gangs to block access with burning vehicles. Shit just got real over there. To see the amount of weaponry and manpower the drug dealers have at their disposal is scary. Given that the last CoD had a mission in Rio, it reminded me of this kotaku article from yesterday. Quote
Buddy Posted November 25, 2010 Report Posted November 25, 2010 No helmets is more disturbing, not sure if theres kevlar in those vests either. Quote
arhurt Posted November 25, 2010 Author Report Posted November 25, 2010 No helmets is more disturbing, not sure if theres kevlar in those vests either. Probably not. Quote
twiz Posted November 25, 2010 Report Posted November 25, 2010 soo.. what happened? Did they get them? Quote
arhurt Posted November 25, 2010 Author Report Posted November 25, 2010 It's still going on, the drug dealer army (quite literary) took refuge on an allied slum. I'm not sure what is going to happen now, if the police will keep the pressure on and hunt them down we could be facing a severe civilian casualty rate as it's very hard tofight in the slums. Quote
Sentura Posted November 25, 2010 Report Posted November 25, 2010 It's still going on, the drug dealer army (quite literary) took refuge on an allied slum. I'm not sure what is going to happen now, if the police will keep the pressure on and hunt them down we could be facing a severe civilian casualty rate as it's very hard tofight in the slums. isn't it also, quite literally, an uphill battle? Quote
Minos Posted November 25, 2010 Report Posted November 25, 2010 Shit's hit the fan real quick. I hope BOPE goes into the shanty and kill all the traffickers!!! Quote
Skacky Posted November 25, 2010 Report Posted November 25, 2010 That's quite sick indeed. We have something like this in France atm too but on a way way smaller scale. A 16 year old dude was killed some days ago in Marseille with a kalachnikov and a 11 year old boy was seriously injured, that dead guy is maybe the 6th or 7th in months to die in such conditions. All of this is linked to drug dealers in the city. And there's a lot of police interventions to arrest those drug dealers, the police always get some good loot in there (warfare weapons, drugs, etc). Quote
Steppenwolf Posted November 26, 2010 Report Posted November 26, 2010 That's quite sick indeed. We have something like this in France atm too but on a way way smaller scale. A 16 year old dude was killed some days ago in Marseille with a kalachnikov and a 11 year old boy was seriously injured, that dead guy is maybe the 6th or 7th in months to die in such conditions. All of this is linked to drug dealers in the city. And there's a lot of police interventions to arrest those drug dealers, the police always get some good loot in there (warfare weapons, drugs, etc). Marseille is a scary place. Been there ten years ago and already back then i saw police casualy patroling together with soldiers with Famas rifles. Lots of shady characters on every street corner too. Quote
arhurt Posted November 26, 2010 Author Report Posted November 26, 2010 Having lived in Rio for about 10 years I can say that when shit gets like this it's really scary to go out. Their standard reaction to any government or police major action is to barricade the favela entrances, sometimes with makeshift barricades of burning tires and stolen vehicles. This time they even installed iron bars sunk deep in the pavement to prevent the light armored cars of getting close to the favelas. The favelas themselves are mazes and they can easily block passages with rubble and burning tires. The worst part however is their terror tactics to scare the populace and scatter police action. They burn buses and cars around the city in independent strike teams. Plant explosives around the city as well as robbing and enforcing lockdowns on specific areas closer to the favelas. On the favelas themselves they are like a dictatorial second power that can take away your belongings and your family in any way they need. And their numbers... god from watching the footage from today's operation, seeing the drug dealers escape in a neighbor favela. I never really realized how bad it was until today. Right now Police are going to hold their territory and try to hunt down the drug dealers, and I'm sure that tactical squads are making surgical strikes tonight. I just hope they can put a real hurt to their numbers and infra-structure before the human costs of this war build up enough and forces the police to back down. Quote
mjens Posted November 26, 2010 Report Posted November 26, 2010 What "favela" means? Can it be translated or it's just a name? BTW. sad to hear that innocent people can get shoot. It will be hard do catch all the drug mobsters in such a place but I hope it will be fine! Quote
arhurt Posted November 26, 2010 Author Report Posted November 26, 2010 From Wikipedia "A favela is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil." They are maze-like settlements with a lot of vertical spaces and narrow corridors, in Rio most of them are located in hillsides and mountains, making it all the more difficult to navigate. Quote
arhurt Posted November 26, 2010 Author Report Posted November 26, 2010 lol their weaponry is so old Indeed, it's a shame they have to go up and do their job like this... Quote
Zyn Posted November 26, 2010 Report Posted November 26, 2010 Gotta clean up for the FIFA World Cup in 4 years... Quote
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