United by grief, mothers in Brazil demand reparations after police killed their sons

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When a Brazilian police officer killed Ana Paula Oliveira’s 19-year-old son in a Rio de Janeiro favela in 2014, the mother of two didn’t think she would survive the grief. Founding a group with other grieving mothers — attending judicial hearings, protests and commemorative ev...

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