Rio police kill, torture with impunity: HRWRIO DE JANEIRO -- Police in Rio de Janeiro state, which hosts next month's Olympics, killed at least 645 people last year and 8,000 over the last decade, a rights group said Thursday. The strategy was to kill them as a way to reduce crime, he said. He was quoted as saying that some police would capture suspected drug traffickers and kill them, sometimes to gain status as killers and to boost their own extortion rackets. The toll includes dozens of execution-style killings in addition to the lethal violence used during standard police work in the state, the report from Human Rights Watch said. "Illegal executions by police colleagues turn an already dangerous job into something even more dangerous" and stoke anger against the authorities, the report said.

Source: The China Post July 08, 2016 16:07 UTC