'Trigger happy' police in Brazil kill an average six people a day

'Brazilian police make abusive use of lethal force to respond to crime and violence,' say researchers

Brazilian police during a riot incident in Sao Paulo on September 15, 2014
(Image credit: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty)

Police in Brazil killed more than 11,000 people between 2009 and 2012, an average of six killings a day, according to a study by researchers in Sao Paulo.

The Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, a non-governmental organisation, claims that 11,197 people were killed by police officers over the past five years, with 416 people killed in Rio de Janeiro state last year alone.

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