This is all too typical:
A Rio de Janeiro police commander called his force the "best social insecticide" after killing at least 9 suspected drug traffickers in a slum, but rights activists said the comment showed police were targeting the poor.
Colonel Marcus Jardim, whose quote was carried by two national newspapers on Wednesday, was alluding to an epidemic of mosquito-borne dengue fever that has swept Rio's poorer areas in recent weeks and killed at least 80 people.
A number of residents were injured as well. I wonder if he considers them insects.
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