Over 300 Brazilian Police Raided A Building That Had Been Taken Over By Drug Dealers In An Unreal Video
YouTube – The occupied hotel is in a noble neighborhood of Brazil’s capital, Brasília. The lot is valued at about R$20,000,000, but was occupied by crack cocaine users and was a focus of dengue and other diseases.
Government tried to deal with the occupants, to no avail. Police intervened to get them out of there, they fought back with sticks, stones, and knives. Even an air-conditioning was thrown downstairs at the police. More than 300 policemen participated on the action.
Happy upcoming Olympics everyone! You’re going to a country where they’re reenacting amazing Indonesian action movies (have enough people seen The Raid to justify this reference? Because holy shit what an action movie, that and John Wick are the best in years) but just as a normal daily course of events. But that’s where hundreds of thousands of people will flock to this summer for the 2016 Olympics, a country falling apart at the seams. At the same time though, at least they’re doing something about it. With all eyes on Brazil in just a few weeks, they’re now in full on “Oh shit I’m in college and my family is minutes away, how do I clean up my house so I don’t look like I live in squalor” mode. A few raids of druggies here, throwing a rug over some dead bodies there, maybe throw an extra coat of makeup on the local hookers and hope no one notices you’re a nation in total disarray. It’s worth a short over doing nothing at all. I respect it.
Related Brazil story: I was meeting an ex’s parents for the first time, two Presbyterian ministers, the mom a very stodgy but sweet old lady and the dad an older guy who seemed like one of those “I still do a ton of physical things” Mandelbaum Mandelbaum types. One time they both went to Brazil for a ministry trip and the dad had wandered off as he often did, going sightseeing and taking pictures all over. In his journey he ended up in the favelas, the colorfully painted projects down there, and two guys cornered him and wanted his camera (unclear if it was for theft or out of concern of photographic evidence) at knifepoint. He refused to give it up being a white minister from Oregon who never had been stabbed or held at knifepoint before, presumably. So the guy slashed his face and then cut the camera strap off his neck to take the camera and leave. Now this was an aggressive story to tell a guy your daughter is dating on a first meal but even better is that my ex had ZERO clue and sat there in horror with her mouth agape as she heard this story also for the first time. Her sweet mom just sat there like “I know sweetie, sorry” while she had to hear about her dad almost dying at knifepoint and pointing out a scar on his cheek that she also never noticed. It was a hell of a time.
Needless to say, this is easily in the top 10 of my “First time meeting a girl’s minister parents at a Brother Jimmy’s” stories AND an added bonus reason to watch your ass in Brazil in case the Crack Motel being raided by an army of cops didn’t put it over the top. Who needs the Lonely Planet books?