What to know about Rio's deadliest police raid that exposed limits of anti-gang tactics in Brazil

Bodies line Rio favela streets after city’s deadliest police raid, leaving at least 132 dead. A massive police and military operation involving about 2,500 officers targeted the Comando Vermelho drug gang in the northern favelas of Complexo do Alemao and Penha. Residents laid more than 70 bodies—many young men—on a main street, some covered with sheets, others exposed. Local community leaders described many victims as executed: “shot in the back, shots to the head, stab wounds, people tied up.”