Brazil presidential hopeful: Let police kill criminals 6 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy the Associated PressA leading candidate in Brazil’s presidential election said police should be given license to kill criminals and those who do should receive medals not face prosecution. “This kind of people (criminals), you cannot treat them as if they were normal human beings, ok? We can’t let policemen keep dying at the hands of those guys,” Bolsonaro said on TV Globo’s main nightly news program. Brazil has long been the world leader in overall homicide numbers, and its homicide rate is also one of the highest.

Source: Manila Bulletin August 29, 2018 21:56 UTC