Rio de Janeiro police officers arrested for killings of black and mixed-race youths

Four military police officers fatally shot five youths on Sunday and allegedly tampered with crime scene in latest incident in city's long list of police killings Four military police officers in Rio de Janeiro have been taken into custody following allegations that they killed five black and mixed-race youths from a favela and then doctored the crime scene to make it appear like self-defence. The latest incident in a horrifyingly long list of killings by Rio's police - which is far higher than ...