My 2-cents on this great thread

For past 3 yrs, I’ve been working on a project that’s required me to study lynch mobs in Brazil

To call rate of lynchings here a problem is an understatement

& I think it correlates w ppl’s thirst for a law & order strongman like Bolsonaro

1/13

Back in 2016 I crawled the news for reports of lynchings across Brazil

What I found: 180 deaths — 180 people killed by an angry crowd

That’s 1 every 2 days

I wrote about that in the article linked below (keep in mind: the year hadn’t ended

Experts all told me same thing: vigilante justice is a byproduct of people’s belief that the state does not fight crime effectively

This is true everywhere

Consider the Philippines, which had elected strongman Duterte: https://t.co/2rJLGd2vwy

3/13

https://t.co/2rJLGd2vwy

So what about this last week before the elections in Brazil? Have there been any vigilante killings?

Let’s go back to last Saturday

4/13

In the early hours, a man recently released from prison was beaten to death by 4 others in the center of Brazil’s richest city, São Paulo

Killing took place in the middle of the street, on the doorstep of the country’s most prestigious