October, 2026 – Andrés Brenner | Meanwhile Productions for Human Rights Watch.

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Police officers tampered with body cameras and obstructed justice during an operation in a low-income neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 28, 2025

The investigation, “‘A Strategy of Death’: Investigating Brazil’s Deadliest Police Operation,” documents Operation Containment (Operação Contenção), in which a total of 122 people were killed. This included two children and four police officers killed that day, and a fifth police officer who later succumbed to his wounds. An additional two men were killed in the early morning before the official start of the operation.