Blurry Photos Are Getting Brazilians Jailed
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Published 2022-01-15
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All Comments (21)
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Crime occurs Police: "What did he look like?!" Witness: "He was black and had hair!" Police: "I Know the guy!" Like wtf
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No doubt in my mind this is disproportionately impacting Black Brazilians more than the light skin ones.
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They should be required to make 50% of the photos be mugshot-like photos of the cops. It would end the practice in no time
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That's such a shame! How long can someone try and stay on the straight and narrow if they are constantly criminalised.
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study after study has shown, eye witness accounts are the LEAST reliable form of evidence, but unfortunately, also the most relied upon form in our court system today. People see what they want to see.
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I remember when I was in Rio in 2019 and had to go to the police station for a police report on a skimmed ATM card. People were flipping through binders of mug shots all over the place to try and identify muggers.
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For real. This crap happened in every country. Even in the US hundreds of thousands of people have been convicted on blurry photos
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My heart goes out to the black people in Brazil it's still like fucking 1941 for blacks in Brazil
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yeah this is like something from the 50's... kind of unbelievable.
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Rio's Police need to pay a penalty for their carelessness to know that choosing an innocent person of a crime they didn't commit is wrong. They should be sued.
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Better for a guilty man to go free than an innocent man be jailed
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31 months in pre-trial detention isn’t just a police problem, that’s also a Justice system problem. Accused should be released at the nearest convenience of the court unless the prosecution provides a reasonable cause (balanced based on probability)
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1:50 cameraman of culture I see.
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so sad 😞 I feel so horrible for this man and his family. The justice system in the US claims to “rehabilitate” but it’s just a revolving door trapping our young black men. Sounds even worse in Brazil. Ironically, both US and Brazil have horrifying past with slavery. Makes one think these systems have racial bias stemming from our past with slavery 🧐
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Terrible injustice against this man. Blessings to him for his struggles with the government and their BS
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The title made me think that Brazilians were getting jailed for having blurry cameras in their phones. 😂
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1:55 im moving to Brazil despite this risk
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I wish I was a billionaire, cause I would spend my money helping innocent men and women like this! These poor men have their lives flipped upside down, on top of the conditions of the prison, it's absolutely a disgrace this happens in any country. My prayers for all of them!!
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People are constantly being mis identified through pictures, especially considering during the crime the person may not be looking at certain unique features, like scars, tattoos and whatnot. Not to mention there are people who, like in the 80% said in this instance, think identification is race driven...not saying all of them but it's definitely not so reliable that you should stop all investigation and make an arrest. I really hope this gets fixed or something, that's horrible. I couldn't imagine...
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I’m Brazilian but everytime I see all these news about corruption and crime it all sounds so distance and extreme to me. I grew up in a rather rural setting. Our close neighbors was a farm house like 20 miles away and I also remember when I left to the US the car ride to the airport took like 14 hours just for the nearest internacional airport.
