+64 gang members killed in shootout with police…..Gangs bomb police with drones in retaliation for Rio de Janeiro raid
Red Command members respond with gunfire after ‘biggest ever’ police assault on city’s drug traffickers
In scenes akin to a war zone, residents of the city’s poorest northern neighbourhoods scrambled for cover as 2,500 armed officers engaged in an exchange of fire with Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of Brazil’s most powerful crime groups.
64 people killed, more than 80 arrested and 12 hours of gunfire.
Simply a foreshadowing of events in the northern hemisphere