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Present Tense, Ep. 06 - Black Genocide
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Present Tense addresses contemporary Brazilian themes from the experience of two characters and the analysis of a researcher expert in the subject.
Throughout the season, the series addresses topics such as the impact of pesticide use, violence against the LGBTQIA+ population, violence against women, structural racism, precarious work, fake news, the importance of Public Healthcare, and demarcation of indigenous lands, among others.
Citation
Main credits
Mac Niven, Rodrigo (film director)
Rios Corrêa, Clarice (screenwriter)
Oliveira, Juliana (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Rodrigo Mac Niven; editing, Gabriel Medeiros, Felipe Bibian, Renato Martins.
Distributor subjects
Sociology; South America; Latin American Studies; Race + Ethnicity; Afro-LatinKeywords
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There is an idea of
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a public safety system
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that induces you to be that,
you are a killing machine,
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that induces you to be that,
you are a killing machine,
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and you are a machine I can give up anytime.
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This carnage, this genocide doesn\'t stop,
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it\'s all the time.
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We live with it all the time.
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But the fact of living together does not mean
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that I got used to it,
and I will never get used to it.
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So it\'s a very well done system,
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It\'s black people chasing black
people and killing black people.
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It\'s very unfair for you
to wait for someone
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that will never come back.
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Why are we killable bodies?
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Every year, 23,100 young black people,
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15 to 29 years old are killed.
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The number is almost four times
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what has already been verified among whites,
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which reinforces the thesis
that a genocide is underway
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of the black population.
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This is one of the conclusions of the final
report of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry.
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I am the son of a black woman
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and a father of black origin too,
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but with a little lighter skin.
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I\'ve always lived in a
peripheral neighborhood.
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The 80s, when I most understand
myself as a teenager,
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the action of the police in
these neighborhoods is frightening,
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because it was as if we were
playing in the street,
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I remember that very well,
and the parents:
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\"Here comes the police\",
everyone ran
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into their homes.
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I joined the police 21 years ago.
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I went through a moment of great enchantment,
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when the dedication was exclusive.
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I worked 15 years on the front lines,
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operational, research service,
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I worked with homicides,
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I worked with a group that fought
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extermination groups.
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Our authors were policemen,
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it was a time when I had a lot
of conflict with the police,
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death threat, everything.
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Then I worked as a researcher,
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in the Toxic and Narcotics sector.
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Talking about us is always
difficult, isn\'t it?
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I had five children.
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I always saw myself as a man\'s mother,
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of a boy, you know?
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He was my last attempt at having a child,
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because I had four daughters.
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David, he...
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he was extremely vain.
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He took several baths a day,
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always with well-cut hair,
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full of gel.
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He looked at himself a lot
in the mirror, \"Am I okay?\"
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I think it\'s the phase of discovering
the first girlfriend, right?
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He was in love.
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Prior to that date October 24, 2014,
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I thought I was the happiest
person in the world.
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But I had the idea that we live in
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a truculent world.
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I just didn\'t imagine that this truculence
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that exists, mainly in the sphere of the State,
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would reach me.
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I started to understand a little more,
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through the pain,
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what is racism
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what is this structural violence.
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Not that I didn\'t understand before.
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I just didn\'t feel it on my skin.
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Ironically, he woke up early,
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he didn\'t usually wake up early, 6:30 in the morning,
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and to this day I wonder why?
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And he went out to buy bread.
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There was a police approach
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there in the neighborhood and
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I was already at work
when my daughter called me,
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saying that he was taken.
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And, to this day, we don\'t know
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David\'s whereabouts.
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A very recent data
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of the Brazilian Forum on Public Security
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shows that blacks are about 30%
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of the composition of the Police Forces.
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This is shocking data.
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If you look at the police, you mostly see
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black people.
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It\'s because black people
are the public face
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of police expression.
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Who is called to control activities
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on the street, the Military Police,
above all, are black people.
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Although the authorization of this violence
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and the legal validation of this violence
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pass through the hands of white people,
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judges, prosecutors, delegates,
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president of the republic, governors,
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this exercise of violence is
attributed to black people
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so that only black people
risk themselves on the front.
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The image that most represents
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the drama of police violence
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is a woman crying over
the loss of her child,
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the loss of her companion,
the loss of her brother.
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And this is a possible image
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for a police officer victim of violence
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and this is a possible image for a boy,
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young, black, from a community,
victim of police violence,
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victim of trafficking,
victim of militia action.
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That is, mothers who cry
come from the same place.
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Because, deep down, deep down,
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this is not a state war
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against criminal organizations.
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It is not a war of the
state against trafficking.
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These are just rhetorical arguments.
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This is a race war,
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and that I don\'t even know if
\"war\" is a word that fits
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to be used,
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because even in war there is agreement.
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Don\'t kill a child
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elderly people are not wasted.
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What is being lived in Brazil is
not a war, it is a genocide.
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When something reminds me of his process,
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I keep remembering the injustice
he suffered, death, right?
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It wasn\'t a peaceful death, I\'m sure.
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In fact, I have no doubts.
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I usually say that on that day,
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David lived his holocaust,
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for those cops to learn how to torture
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and kill when joining the Military Police
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and that day were forming
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23 military police.
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And there was a person, a lady,
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who was with him, talking,
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and she said she had no reason to take him.
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And she was threatened with being taken too.
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And this lady is under state protection,
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in a witness program.
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At that time, I had a social
network, which I later deleted,
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where I received several bodies
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of mutilated women.
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And there was one that said:
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\"That\'s what we do with strong women.\"
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people are passing by now
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in a popular neighborhood,
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known as Cosmo de Farias.
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I lived here for about 15 years or so.
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My daughter still lives here.
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I have many friends here,
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I\'ve had some that were
killed here, by the police.
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Others are police.
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The question we asked at that moment,
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together with colleagues in the car,
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was exactly the question everyone asks:
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\"And if you were a white person,
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Would you be treated that way?\"
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The race!
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What\'s up?
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Alright.
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How are you?
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Have you had lunch?
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Yup.
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The movement I\'m a part of,
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which is the Anti-Fascism Police Movement,
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says public safety cannot be reduced
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to the police issue.
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So it\'s a group that is intended
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to have a dialogue,
identifying that the police
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today it is a receptacle of fascism.
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The police have always managed
the serpent\'s egg of fascism.
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That\'s why we have the debate,
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characterizing this Anti-
Fascism Police Movement,
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who is not anti-fascist,
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because we are not having dialogue
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against the individual
who practices fascism.
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We are doing dialogue and confrontation
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the institution, or the existing idea
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of fascism in the functioning
of this institution.
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So I want...
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This is very important
to take this approach.
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...I want to analyze the issue of fascism,
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as an element
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that remained
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over the past century,
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influencing policies for the black population.
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Especially security, because...
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One of the main concerns of this movement
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it is precisely to problematize
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all these things that we\'re doing
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about institutional racism,
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but bring it out from the police
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and into the police.
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Because Eugenics was a study of breed cleanliness.
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So worse than slavery itself,
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what caused the black population to remain
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where it is was later policies.
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Any chance of success
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of a public security policy
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is it having as center
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the recognition that racism
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is what structures inequalities,
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because racism separates
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who are people and who
are not people in Brazil.
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Who, when dead, generates a social feeling
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of belonging, of compassion,
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of indignation, of empathy,
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and who is a thing, whose
death produces nothing.
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If we were considering that
black people are human,
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60,000 human victims of
violent death per year
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would cause political commotion
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and that would be the
main theme of Brazil.
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Unfortunately, the violence continues
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falling on the black and poor population in Brazil.
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The genocide against this community
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is marked by frightening data.
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In the last 20 years, for example,
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the number of young black men murdered
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increased by 429%.
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But the fight against violence
against the black population
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does not seem to move the
Brazilian authorities.
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We are arriving at an organized event
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by the Collective of Mothers and
Relatives of Victims of the State,
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together with other collectives
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for one more meeting.
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This process, which I always say
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that I turned my grief into a fight,
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occurred through the
knowledge of other families.
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Hey, warrior!
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So we have a group that calls
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National Network of Relatives
and Victims of the State,
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and we organize meetings,
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regional, state, seminars.
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Always strengthening each other,
because, in the end,
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only us left, we for ourselves, you know?
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The state of Bahia has a great demand
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for this type of articulation
and mobilization,
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and the Brazilian Northeast as
well, because the indices
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are very high.
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The task of burying,
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to fight for the rescue of memory,
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to denounce violence
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and to prove innocence, many times,
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of young black victims of violence
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is a task that Brazilian
society has imposed
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to black women.
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They are black women who
took it upon themselves
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the task of saying that
the dead have a voice,
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that this boy and this
girl will not be buried
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like paupers.
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Good afternoon everyone.
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I don\'t know if anyone here has heard of it.
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The Davi Fiuza case, I am his mother.
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When they kill our children,
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kidnap, disappear,
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they try to reproduce in us a guilt
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and I worked a lot on myself,
because I used to say:
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\"Why did he leave that day?\"
\"Why didn\'t I keep it?\"
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When I\'m at home, the
suffering is very great.
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I remember my youngest son
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which was also executed
by state terrorism.
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In the early morning of December 2018,
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three hooded men broke into Peter\'s house,
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surprised him while he slept,
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they gave him a voice of arrest
and shot him to death.
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I wonder, if David were white,
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would he have died?
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I don\'t know, maybe not.
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Color matters.
It matters a lot.
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Why the death toll of young black people
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increases and the number of
white youth deaths decreases?
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Why an indicator as central as a homicide
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Is it so resistant to inclusion policies?
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It is resistant, because it has something
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distinct from the economic issue
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that makes the inclusion not occur,
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or occur more slowly for black people.
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another young man gone
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another mother who cries
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Every day, this cruel and war scene
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is repeated in the alleys of the favelas.
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The bullet comes with the address of black youth
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and poor from the slums.
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The bounty hunters, disguised as police,
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kills black every day.
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The media does not publicize this.
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Strategic state, racist, spoiled police.
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Just for being a young black man
and living on the outskirts.
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Enough!
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Extermination and genocide of black youth
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it has to end!
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Let\'s not shut up!
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And as for us youth, not a step back.
00:15:11.877 --> 00:15:14.046
The fact that someone is
born into a poor family
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can be reversed, somehow,
00:15:16.448 --> 00:15:17.950
in that person\'s trajectory.
00:15:18.851 --> 00:15:20.619
But racial belonging, no.
00:15:20.753 --> 00:15:23.956
The main product of racism
is not inequality.
00:15:24.356 --> 00:15:27.293
The main product of racism
is dehumanization.
00:15:34.199 --> 00:15:36.135
My dear!
God accompany you!
00:15:36.135 --> 00:15:37.436
Good morning to you all!
00:15:38.304 --> 00:15:41.173
I spent the night here, at the police station,
00:15:41.173 --> 00:15:42.708
ending now at 8 am,
00:15:42.708 --> 00:15:45.144
I leave now, around 8:30, 8:40.
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Going now to the staff meeting
00:15:46.845 --> 00:15:49.114
of the Anti-Fascism Police
00:15:49.114 --> 00:15:51.717
and people from the civil
police union of Bahia.
00:15:53.385 --> 00:15:56.655
It is not admissible, in
the Brazilian Police System,
00:15:56.655 --> 00:15:58.557
to have a policeman who thinks.
00:15:58.557 --> 00:16:00.359
You\'ve got to have a
policeman that complies,
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even in the civil police.
00:16:02.394 --> 00:16:06.398
Police officer who thinks too much,
according to the popular saying
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and according to those who want to guide
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us in a wrong way, whoever
thinks too much dies.
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Because they consider being a cop
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is to decide between life and death.
00:16:14.673 --> 00:16:16.175
So, deciding between life
and death is as follows:
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or I kill, or I die, you don\'t
have to think too much.
00:16:19.111 --> 00:16:20.245
We know it won\'t reach
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most police officers
00:16:21.213 --> 00:16:24.383
but it will manage to reach
a huge number of police
00:16:24.383 --> 00:16:25.851
who are suffocated,
00:16:27.086 --> 00:16:28.253
wanting to talk,
00:16:29.188 --> 00:16:32.257
wanting to express themselves
and find no space for it.
00:16:33.125 --> 00:16:35.094
This is a challenge that
the anti-fascism police
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have to do.
00:16:37.796 --> 00:16:41.033
How do you propose what the police should be?
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This guides us to think which police we want.
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This idea of a police model, then,
00:16:45.904 --> 00:16:49.408
has to be very well discussed with the base.
00:16:49.408 --> 00:16:55.347
We don\'t even know what it\'s about.
00:16:55.981 --> 00:17:00.152
They are much more identified
with that old policeman,
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behaving much more like a hired gunman,
00:17:03.489 --> 00:17:07.126
than really a police officer who
thinks, who produces reports.
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This police officer, first,
needs to be educated.
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We think that if someone commits a crime,
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he has to get there and shoot
him, because we carry guns.
00:17:14.967 --> 00:17:17.236
We create marginals,
00:17:17.536 --> 00:17:19.638
we kill people, we kill families.
00:17:19.905 --> 00:17:21.440
We kill families!
00:17:22.107 --> 00:17:23.942
Youth who dare to fight...
00:17:23.942 --> 00:17:25.711
Builds the People\'s Power!
00:17:25.711 --> 00:17:27.312
They approach me, search me
00:17:27.312 --> 00:17:30.249
and plant evidence against me
to take away my innocence.
00:17:30.449 --> 00:17:31.717
send me out
00:17:31.917 --> 00:17:34.953
and cowardly, in the back, they shoot me.
00:17:35.287 --> 00:17:37.723
They quarter me so no one can find my body.
00:17:37.956 --> 00:17:40.492
Then I suffer, but I don\'t suffer alone.
00:17:40.726 --> 00:17:42.828
My mother cries night and day,
00:17:43.228 --> 00:17:45.597
knowing my brother could be next.
00:17:46.065 --> 00:17:48.901
Racist, fascist police.
00:17:49.168 --> 00:17:51.670
The uniforms that should protect us
00:17:52.037 --> 00:17:53.305
are the ones that kill us.
00:17:55.574 --> 00:17:57.576
Today you have a police that apparently
00:17:57.576 --> 00:17:59.545
gives the idea of being austere, strong
00:17:59.545 --> 00:18:02.314
and tough in the fight against crime,
00:18:02.681 --> 00:18:05.984
but a totally scrapped structure,
00:18:06.218 --> 00:18:08.687
placed in an extremely precarious situation.
00:18:08.887 --> 00:18:12.991
The policeman is frowned upon,
he is poorly paid,
00:18:12.991 --> 00:18:15.027
he is mistreated, he is a sub-citizen.
00:18:15.294 --> 00:18:18.730
And it is this type of person,
in this condition of sub-citizen,
00:18:19.098 --> 00:18:22.067
that is thrown on the street
to guarantee citizenship
00:18:22.067 --> 00:18:24.269
to the citizen, to guarantee
the right of the citizen.
00:18:24.503 --> 00:18:26.672
If I withdraw from you, I dehumanize you,
00:18:26.939 --> 00:18:28.974
obviously your relationship with the other
00:18:28.974 --> 00:18:30.375
it is also dehumanizing.
00:18:30.542 --> 00:18:33.011
We will not face violence
00:18:33.445 --> 00:18:35.581
that is practiced on the police,
00:18:35.581 --> 00:18:37.683
if the police don\'t have it, they too,
00:18:38.117 --> 00:18:39.985
awareness of the brutal dimension
00:18:40.252 --> 00:18:41.753
in which they are being summoned.
00:18:42.221 --> 00:18:43.822
I don\'t think we should
00:18:43.822 --> 00:18:47.226
absolve the police of their
responsibility for the violence.
00:18:47.893 --> 00:18:51.230
I think ethically everyone who shoots,
00:18:51.230 --> 00:18:52.297
that pulls the trigger
00:18:52.297 --> 00:18:54.066
must be called to account,
00:18:54.066 --> 00:18:56.268
because you have a responsibility in that.
00:18:56.268 --> 00:18:57.703
I think it\'s fundamental that
00:18:57.703 --> 00:19:02.074
we hold the other actors in
the Justice System accountable,
00:19:02.074 --> 00:19:05.110
who are better paid, better protected,
00:19:05.110 --> 00:19:07.613
more socially prestigious than the police
00:19:07.813 --> 00:19:10.482
and that has as much as, or sometimes,
00:19:10.482 --> 00:19:12.985
much more responsibility than
the police in violence.
00:19:13.085 --> 00:19:16.588
The judge who authorizes a search warrant
00:19:16.588 --> 00:19:19.057
and collective apprehension
is so responsible
00:19:19.057 --> 00:19:21.193
for the violence as the police
00:19:21.527 --> 00:19:24.396
that abuses in this collective
search and apprehension.
00:19:24.630 --> 00:19:26.198
Even though sometimes I seem weak,
00:19:26.198 --> 00:19:27.399
but i feel strong.
00:19:28.367 --> 00:19:29.234
I\'m strong.
00:19:30.569 --> 00:19:33.105
But also the strong cry, the strong...
00:19:34.306 --> 00:19:35.807
need a lap sometimes.
00:19:36.241 --> 00:19:39.645
The UN asked for an explanation of the case.
00:19:40.546 --> 00:19:43.682
Who will judge the case are the military themselves,
00:19:43.682 --> 00:19:45.617
ie your peers, they will judge.
00:19:46.151 --> 00:19:50.322
The Public Ministry denounced only
seven police officers out of 23.
00:19:50.722 --> 00:19:53.192
And it gives no explanation,
no justification,
00:19:53.425 --> 00:19:55.194
why denounce only seven.
00:19:55.294 --> 00:19:57.729
The world has to know
that Davi Fiuza existed
00:19:57.729 --> 00:20:00.966
and the state of Bahia
simply tortured and killed,
00:20:01.133 --> 00:20:02.701
and disappeared with the body.
00:20:03.068 --> 00:20:05.270
-David Fiuza!
-Present!
00:20:05.571 --> 00:20:07.706
-David Fiuza!
-Present!
00:20:08.106 --> 00:20:10.042
-David Fiuza!
-Present!
00:20:10.042 --> 00:20:12.044
Let\'s turn you from a hired gunman
00:20:12.044 --> 00:20:14.012
into a citizen police officer.
00:20:14.213 --> 00:20:15.948
We need to do this.
00:20:16.548 --> 00:20:18.650
Bring…humanize, actually.
00:20:19.318 --> 00:20:21.353
We need to get rid of these guys
00:20:21.353 --> 00:20:24.189
and humanize, through these debates,
00:20:24.189 --> 00:20:27.726
so they can understand what their role is
00:20:27.726 --> 00:20:28.727
inside the police,
00:20:28.727 --> 00:20:30.429
which is not the role of being hired gunman.
00:20:31.163 --> 00:20:34.166
I think that we, each of us,
00:20:34.800 --> 00:20:36.802
we can make this revolution.
00:20:40.005 --> 00:20:41.907
Or the people come into the places,
00:20:41.907 --> 00:20:44.409
occupy and say: \"I want a different police\",
00:20:44.843 --> 00:20:46.545
or there\'s nowhere for us to run, brother.
00:20:46.545 --> 00:20:47.412
We are lost.
00:20:51.416 --> 00:20:53.385
We fundamentally need to
00:20:53.652 --> 00:20:56.255
create an environment of
rights for the police.
00:20:56.421 --> 00:20:59.057
We\'re talking about bad food,
00:20:59.224 --> 00:21:02.561
of us having any kind of
psychological assistance.
00:21:02.828 --> 00:21:05.230
Cops shooting in the street,
00:21:05.230 --> 00:21:07.599
who exchange dozens of shots in the street
00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:11.003
and that, 24, 48 hours later,
00:21:11.270 --> 00:21:13.372
return to their scale activity
00:21:13.372 --> 00:21:15.073
As if nothing had happened.
00:21:30.422 --> 00:21:31.990
That moment, when I get home,
00:21:31.990 --> 00:21:33.959
It\'s time for peace, right?
00:21:34.459 --> 00:21:37.996
We keep counting the hours to get home safe.
00:21:44.136 --> 00:21:45.237
Clarinha, come, my daughter.
00:21:45.237 --> 00:21:47.105
Tsk, tsk, tsk, come on, go up!
00:21:47.306 --> 00:21:48.807
I sit, relax, stay here.
00:21:48.807 --> 00:21:49.908
Sometimes I turn on the television.
00:21:49.908 --> 00:21:51.843
I spend two, three hours looking at the television,
00:21:52.277 --> 00:21:54.313
not knowing what I\'m going to do.
Are you hungry, are you?
00:21:54.913 --> 00:21:57.449
It\'s as if the body arrived and
the soul had to come later.
00:21:57.883 --> 00:21:59.351
This is the feeling I have.
00:22:01.353 --> 00:22:03.021
All of a sudden I started to have
00:22:03.021 --> 00:22:05.123
a depressive process.
00:22:05.724 --> 00:22:07.526
I\'m sure this is because of
00:22:07.526 --> 00:22:11.596
the type of life I lead, bad food, sedentary.
00:22:11.596 --> 00:22:13.465
Police activity leads you to this.
00:22:14.299 --> 00:22:16.768
Police activity is sick.
00:22:16.768 --> 00:22:19.338
I just realized that I was in a depressive process,
00:22:19.338 --> 00:22:20.772
when I looked at my firearm,
00:22:20.772 --> 00:22:23.575
I looked at my hand and
thought about the hypothesis
00:22:23.575 --> 00:22:25.077
of putting it in the mouth
and pulling the trigger.
00:22:25.477 --> 00:22:27.279
Today this depression accompanies me
00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:28.613
Until this moment.
00:22:28.980 --> 00:22:30.749
Maybe I can find some pleasure
00:22:30.749 --> 00:22:31.950
in this militancy that I do.
00:22:32.718 --> 00:22:34.720
Clarinha, dear.
00:22:35.253 --> 00:22:37.656
Daddy\'s beautiful.
00:22:38.824 --> 00:22:40.192
Come kiss me, come.
00:22:47.165 --> 00:22:49.301
Each person seeks a way
00:22:49.301 --> 00:22:52.637
to work on the psychological, physical,
00:22:52.904 --> 00:22:54.139
because otherwise go crazy.
00:22:54.139 --> 00:22:56.742
Even more in this situation,
this democratic state
00:22:56.742 --> 00:22:59.211
rightful killer, takes everything from us.
00:22:59.211 --> 00:23:03.014
It takes away the will to live.
00:23:05.617 --> 00:23:07.219
And apart from friends and family,
00:23:07.219 --> 00:23:10.355
what gave me this desire to continue
00:23:11.223 --> 00:23:12.357
it was Jiu-Jitsu.
00:23:12.591 --> 00:23:13.925
It\'s what makes me wake up,
00:23:13.925 --> 00:23:16.361
It\'s what boosted my self-esteem.
00:23:16.361 --> 00:23:17.629
When I know I\'m going to train,
00:23:17.629 --> 00:23:20.632
I will meet people who have
the same purpose as me.
00:23:20.632 --> 00:23:22.567
And for a moment, I forget everything.
00:23:22.834 --> 00:23:25.070
It\'s the moment where it feels like
00:23:25.871 --> 00:23:26.872
there was never any pain.
00:23:29.975 --> 00:23:34.179
I really hope that justice is done,
00:23:34.179 --> 00:23:35.380
despite that
00:23:35.814 --> 00:23:36.882
David doesn\'t come back.
00:23:39.484 --> 00:23:41.019
I will never see David again.
00:23:45.457 --> 00:23:48.393
But I must do justice to
the memory of David.
00:23:51.530 --> 00:23:54.132
There\'s a song that goes like this:
\"I know I will love you
00:23:54.132 --> 00:23:55.767
For all my life
I will love you\",
00:23:57.068 --> 00:23:58.203
and Tom Jobim says:
00:23:58.203 --> 00:24:01.673
\"And what did your absence do to me?\"
00:24:02.507 --> 00:24:05.610
David\'s absence caused me many things.
00:24:07.112 --> 00:24:10.449
A longing, a pain I had never felt before.
00:24:12.684 --> 00:24:14.152
A fortress at the same time.
00:24:17.122 --> 00:24:18.323
And, as a friend of mine says,
00:24:18.323 --> 00:24:20.325
we are still going to give
birth to a new Brazil,
00:24:20.992 --> 00:24:22.661
a less racist Brazil.
00:24:22.661 --> 00:24:24.463
that\'s what we are
00:24:25.497 --> 00:24:27.299
trying to make happen, you know?
00:24:36.708 --> 00:24:41.646
Every 23 minutes a young black man is murdered in Brazil.
00:24:43.682 --> 00:24:49.921
Between 2007 and 2017, the murders of black people
increased 10 times more than of non-black people.
00:24:51.022 --> 00:24:57.762
In 2018, there were more police officers victims
of suicide than killed during their jobs.
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 26 minutes
Date: 2020
Genre: Expository
Language: Portuguese
Grade: High School, College, Adults
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