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Fatalities underline dangers in government efforts to evict thousands of miners who have devastated Indigenous territory

I was in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, as the votes were being counted for the nation’s presidential election.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday did not concede defeat in his first public remarks since losing Sunday's election, saying protests by his supporters were the fruit of "indignation and a sense of injustice" over the vote.

Widespread allegations of illegal roadblocks by Brazil's Federal Highway Police (PRF) in the poor northeast of Brazil sparked fears of potential vote suppression that could benefit far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in Sunday's tense runoff election.

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Genivaldo de Jesus Santos, who is thought to have suffered from schizophrenia, died after being bundled into the back of a police car where cops had let off a gas cannister

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Bodies from a Rio de Janeiro police raid that left more than 20 alleged drug traffickers dead show signs of torture and summary execution, a senior lawyer said on Thursday, the latest incident of suspected police brutality to shock the South American nation. 

Viral videos of a 38-year-old Brazilian man being asphyxiated with gas in the trunk of police car after getting stopped by highway patrol caused outrage across Brazil on Thursday.

This is the moment The Dark Knight gets a jump start from helpful cops after his Batmobile broke down on a crime-fighting mission.