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The victim informed the police that the security guards stopped the assaults only after realizing that her boot was not stolen; one of the suspects would have called the boy a “black thief”
Three employees of a supermarket, including security guards, are suspected of assaulting, in a hidden room, a 28-year-old man who would be under suspicion of theft in business, according to a report to the Military Police (PM), only the beating session. was interrupted when the trio concluded that the victim had not committed a crime. The attacks, followed by racial injuries, as the boy stated in his complaint, took place in the municipality of Várzea da Palma, in the northern region of Minas Gerais, last Sunday (6).
A woman came to film the moment when the employees grab the man, but the recording is interrupted by another contractor of the trade. Through the images, you can hear when he says: “he killed (sic) the Carrefour guy like that” – the reported attacks occurred just 19 days after João Alberto Silveira Freitas, 40, was beaten to death by police guards. security in a red supermarket in Porto Alegre.
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The Military Police (PM) of Várzea da Palma was called when the victim received the first medical attention in the city’s emergency room. The boy reported that he was doing his shopping at the local supermarket when an employee, already at the checkout, approached him and told him to raise his foot to show that the boot he was wearing did not belong to the supermarket – at this point suspicion was raised that he would have stolen her shoes.
The man later claimed that he would not lift his foot, since he would have bought the shoe in another supermarket in the municipality. According to the police, three men, market officials, immediately after the refusal, grabbed him and dragged him to a room in the back where they began to beat him on the head, face and belly, according to medical records, the victim he suffered an injury to his left eye and had numerous bruises on his body.
Also according to the boy, one of the suspects even called him a “black thief”. He also reports that he remained for about an hour in the room where the assaults occurred, while one of the suspects went to the other supermarket to confirm that the boot had been bought there. According to the police file, after discovering that the boot was not stolen, the suspects would have released the victim and the supermarket manager apologized, giving her – as a “reward” – the purchases she intended to make at the time she was addressed at the Cashier.
Also according to what appears in the police report, the police found that one of the alleged security guards received medical attention at the hospital where the assaulted child was transferred, and there the team reported that the man in question had his left hand fractured. Military personnel could not find him at his home. The supermarket manager informed the prime minister that there was only one physical fight between this security guard and the victim.
The footage in less than a minute, taken by a woman going to the supermarket, shows the moment when the man was being dragged away by other workers in the shop. Although it is not possible to understand in detail what happens in the scene, the recording allows us to hear the woman say: “Today we have to film everything. Kill the easy, easy person. That’s how he killed the Carrefour guy, ”he says.
In a few seconds you can also notice that someone tries to prevent her from filming, and the recording stops the moment a child cries; Before that, the woman says: “You have no right to that (for someone trying to remove their phone). Aren’t you hitting the boy? I’m not doing too much. ” Someone even threatens to call the police for her.
In another recording, published on the Facebook page “It happens in Várzea e Região”, the victim appears lying on a hospital gurney and narrates in a few seconds: “I am ‘here’ in the emergency room, recovering from the injuries caused by a deal with the racism they put on me, calling me a “black thief”, and the fact that I crawled out and did it to myself. I hope there is no sequel, the situation is a bit sad ”.
Requested, the Civil Police of Minas Gerais (PCMG) declared on Tuesday afternoon (8) that an investigation procedure will investigate the circumstances of the event and that none of those involved was transferred to the police station. “The victim will be summoned to appear at the police unit to take the appropriate measures,” the corporation said in a statement.
The report of TIME The supermarket in question was contacted through social networks: messages were seen, but they were not answered. On one of the phones connected to the store, a supermarket employee reported that it would only be possible to speak to the owner or manager after 3:30 pm.
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