Brazil’s politicians promised to get tough on crime. Now police in Rio are killing nearly 5 people per day

Protests erupted in one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest slums after police allegedly shot a popular local jujitsu teacher to death amid an increasingly lethal crackdown on crime. Hundreds in the city’s poorest neighborhoods have been killed in police operations this year.

Jean Rodrigo da Silva was on his way to teach martial arts to children in the Alemão complex of favelas Tuesday in northern Rio when police fired into the neighborhood, witnesses said. He was struck in the head; photos that showed him lying in a pool of blood went viral.