Why did ‘Brazil’s George Floyd’ receive less public outcry – even in Brazil?

Genivaldo de Jesus Santos was asphyxiated in a police car – but his killers’ lengthy sentences received little attention

Stopped at a checkpoint for riding a motorcycle without a helmet, Genivaldo de Jesus Santos, 38, was forced into the boot of a police car by three police officers, who sprayed pepper spray and teargas into the confined space.

With dozens of bystanders watching – some of them shouting “You’re going to kill him” and warning that De Jesus was mentally ill – the officers kept him in the makeshift gas chamber for 11 minutes and 27 seconds in 2022 in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Sergipe.

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