In a note released this Tuesday morning (3), the Attorney General of São Paulo, Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira e Costa, classified as “appalling and absolutely unacceptable” the images that show a military police officer throwing a motorcyclist off a bridge in the south of São Paulo.
See where the bridge where the situation happened is.
“This Attorney General’s Office will determine, this Tuesday, that the Public Security Special Action Group (GAESP) joins the natural prosecutor of the case so that the Public Ministry can make every effort to punish exemplarily, at the same time. end of criminal prosecution, those responsible for a police intervention that is very far from reassuring the population”, says the note.
In a statement, the Public Security Secretariat (SSP) stated that the Military Police strongly repudiates the illegal conduct adopted by public agents in the video shown.
“As soon as it became aware of the images, the PM launched a military police investigation (IPM) to investigate the facts and hold the police officers accountable, who were identified and removed. The institution reiterates its commitment to legality, without tolerating any misconduct”, adds the note.
Note – MP
Appalling and absolutely unacceptable! There is no other way to classify the images of the moment in which a military police officer throws a man from the top of a bridge, this Monday. From the record released by the press, it is evident that the suspect was already subdued by security agents, who had the functional duty of taking him, intact, to a police district for the incident to be recorded. Only within the limits of the law can public security be carried out, never outside them. Therefore, this Attorney General’s Office will determine, this Tuesday (3/12), that the Public Security Special Action Group (GAESP) joins the natural prosecutor of the case so that the MPSP makes every effort to sense of exemplarily punishing, at the end of criminal prosecution, those responsible for a police intervention that is very far from reassuring the population. On the contrary. The recurring episodes of non-compliance with legal commands by some public agents leave us further away from the much-desired social peace, in favor of which the Public Prosecutor’s Office, within its role of exercising external control over police activity, will continue to act in an unequivocal manner , demanding that authorities comply with the precepts of the Federal Constitution.
The case
The case of a military police officer throwing a motorcyclist off a bridge in São Paulo has repercussions on social media and São Paulo Public Security. Secretary Guilherme Derrite published a video on his social networks ordering the immediate removal of all police officers involved in the case.
According to information obtained by CNN the case would have occurred in the early hours of this Monday (2), in the Cidade Ademar region, south of the city. In the images, it is possible to see a police officer picking up a motorcycle that is on the ground and lifting it. Two other agents approach.
Then, the first PM pulls over the motorcycle near the bridge. Afterwards, a fourth military police officer arrives bringing the man. He approaches the edge of the bridge, grabs the man by his shirt and throws him into the river. See below:
According to an investigation by the CNN the thrown man would be a motorcyclist who had fled from an approach by the PM in Diadema, in ABC. The police officers who appear in the images belong to the 24th Diadema Battalion.
Another video circulating on social media shows a body, wearing a t-shirt similar to that of the man thrown by the PM, floating in the same river. There is still no confirmation that this is the victim.
The São Paulo Police Ombudsman reported that he was aware of the images and requested access to the body cameras of the police officers involved in the incident, as well as the removal of all of them from their duties .
See images of the bridge where the police threw the motorcyclist
This content was originally published in “Stunning images”, says MP about PM who plays bridge motorcyclist in SP on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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