Even in a city long accustomed to extraordinary police violence, where authorities frequently wage warlike operations inside neighborhoods under the control of criminal organizations, the death toll was shocking, showing the enduring grip of violence on Latin America’s largest country. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/06/brazil-police-rio-favela-killings/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/06/brazil-police-rio-favela-killings/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook)