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Marielle Franco, 38, a black politician from Rio de Janeiro, died fighting for rights of women and favela-dwellers. As a councilwoman from the Maré favela, she denounced the police brutality that favela residents, most of them black, regularly experienced.
On Wednesday around 9:20 p.m., armed men gunned the councilwoman down in her car in the center of Rio de Janeiro with nine shotsfour shots to the head. Her driver, Anderson Pedro Gomes, also died. She had just left an event that she organized about black womens empowerment.
https://www.theroot.com/say-her-name-marielle-franco-a-brazilian-politician-w-1823812564
Marielle Franco, 38, a black politician from Rio de Janeiro, died fighting for rights of women and favela-dwellers. As a councilwoman from the Maré favela, she denounced the police brutality that favela residents, most of them black, regularly experienced.
On Wednesday around 9:20 p.m., armed men gunned the councilwoman down in her car in the center of Rio de Janeiro with nine shotsfour shots to the head. Her driver, Anderson Pedro Gomes, also died. She had just left an event that she organized about black womens empowerment.
https://www.theroot.com/say-her-name-marielle-franco-a-brazilian-politician-w-1823812564