Brazilians in a Rio favela line up bodies after the city's deadliest police raid

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00:00It's a gruesome lineup on a main road of Complexo de Penna, one of Rio's largest favelas.

00:06These residents lay out the lifeless bodies of their neighbors,

00:10a day after the bloodiest anti-gang operation in the city's history.

00:14The raid mobilized 2,500 law enforcement officers

00:18to combat the territorial expansion of Commando Vermello,

00:23Rio's main criminal organization,

00:25which operates in these densely populated working-class neighborhoods.

00:30While police raids are frequent,

00:32Tuesday's operation was shocking in its scale and human toll.

00:36Some residents denounced what they called executions.

00:41The government paid for this, to carry out this massacre.

00:44They have to pay for it.

00:45They can't destroy so many lives, so many families, and get away with it.

00:49Is that right? What kind of operation is this? What has changed?

00:53Did they introduce any sports, any studies, anything to improve the lives of young people?

00:57They haven't changed anything.

00:58Tuesday, a steady stream of vehicles arrived at these hospital doors,

01:04carrying bodies and those wounded by gunfire.

01:07The right-wing governor of Rio State initially announced that 60 criminals had been neutralized,

01:13but state police now count more than 100 people killed, including several police officers.

01:19Yesterday we delivered a hard blow to crime, showing that we are capable of winning battles, capable of playing our part.

01:27But we also have the humility and certainty to recognize that this war will not be won alone.

01:34According to this opposition politician,

01:36Governor Claudio Castro's policy treats the favelas as enemy territory where a license to kill prevails.

01:45He has requested an emergency meeting with the Minister of Justice.

01:49The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said he was horrified and called for swift investigations.

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