The two guards, one of whom was an off-duty police officer, were arrested and are being investigated for homicide. Many said it was disturbing that the death occurred on the eve of Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day. Freitas’s wife told police they had gone to the store to shop. Freitas’s wife said her husband had made a gesture that wasn’t specified. In 2018, a security guard beat to death a popular local dog with a metal bar.

Source: Washington Post November 20, 2020 16:01 UTC