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Brazil's Top Prosecutor Tracking Investigation of Councilwoman's KillingMarch 16, 2018, at 4:21 p.m.U.S. News & World ReportBy Ricardo BritoBRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's top federal prosecutor said on Friday she would not hesitate to demand federal authorities take control of an investigation of the murder of a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman if it appears local police were not aggressively pursuing the case.Prosecutor General Raquel Dodge told reporters she hoped it would not be necessary for her to petition Brazil's top appeals court to give federal police and prosecutors control over the investigation of the assassination of Marielle Franco, 38, a rising star in the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL).Dodge has already taken the initial bureaucratic steps required to monitor the work of Rio de Janeiro state investigators' efforts to find those responsible for the Wednesday night killing of Franco.Read more at: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-03-16/brazils-top-prosecutor-tracking-investigation-of-councilwomans-killing
Murder of Black politician Marielle Franco produces uproar in BrazilMarch 16, 2018 1:41 PM CDT By Emile SchepersMarielle Franco was gunned down Wednesday. | TelesurA massive outpouring of grief and anger filled the streets of Rio de Janeiro and other cities on March 15th, as Brazilians reacted to the execution-style murder of a promising young leader in the struggle for the rights of women, LGBT people, and Brazilians of African descent.Marielle Franco, a popular and dynamic Black member of the Rio de Janeiro City Council, was gunned down on Wednesday evening, March 14th, as she returned from a meeting of a group called “Young Blacks Changing Structures.†Her driver, Anderson Gomes, was also killed, and a third person in the car escaped with minor injuries. Ms. Franco was traveling in the back seat of a car with tinted windows, and nothing was stolen, so it is highly unlikely that this was a random victim of the high level of drug-related street crime that affects this city of seven and a half million. Police say the killers, in a car that drew next to the one in which Franco was traveling, had followed her for four kilometers before firing nine shots into her vehicle. Franco died from four bullet wounds to the head.This was obviously an execution, very likely for political motives.Read more at: http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/murder-of-black-politician-marielle-franco-produces-uproar-in-brazil/
Whatever the leanings of this woman and this news source, the story is all over, it's a good picture of her, this sounds like a pretty terrible story that I initially read about Friday morning. And Brazilians are rising up en masse to protest.
