Blurry Photos Are Getting Brazilians Jailed

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Brazil has a mugshot problem. Innocent people can be charged with crimes when the only evidence is a blurry photo and an unconfident witness. A study shows that 83 percent of suspects who were wrongly arrested based entirely on photo recognition were Black.

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コメント (21)

@alejomi 2年前

That's such a shame! How long can someone try and stay on the straight and narrow if they are constantly criminalised.
@hesmotit3640 2年前

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.
@ReclusiveEagle 2年前

Crime occurs Police: "What did he look like?!" Witness: "He was black and had hair!" Police: "I Know the guy!" Like wtf
@Incognegrorn 2年前

No doubt in my mind this is disproportionately impacting Black Brazilians more than the light skin ones.
@mastersonogashira1796 2年前

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)
@trollhunter7764 2年前

For real. This crap happened in every country. Even in the US hundreds of thousands of people have been convicted on blurry photos
@mosesmc52 2年前

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.
@JoelL9724 2年前

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.
@zombiewarking 2年前

My heart goes out to the black people in Brazil it's still like fucking 1941 for blacks in Brazil
@johnthomas1940 2年前

Better for a guilty man to go free than an innocent man be jailed
@shadako2 2年前

yeah this is like something from the 50's... kind of unbelievable.
@dunmadun351 2年前

1:50 cameraman of culture I see.
@angelamarie2554 2年前

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 🧐
@ashleygilley4456 2年前

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!!
@capncake8837 2年前

The title made me think that Brazilians were getting jailed for having blurry cameras in their phones. 😂
@arislopes1924 2年前

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.
@MrPaxio 2年前

1:55 im moving to Brazil despite this risk
@badrissaad 2年前

1:54 great work cameraman ....
@nicolassaarni88 2年前

Terrible injustice against this man. Blessings to him for his struggles with the government and their BS
@andrewjones575 2年前

I'm surprised you're not covering the Nigerian bandit conflict. Over 200 people were killed in this month's massacres in Zamfara.