![‘This Was a Massacre’: Brazilian Police Kill Two Dozen in Deadliest Favela Raid in Rio’s History ‘This Was a Massacre’: Brazilian Police Kill Two Dozen in Deadliest Favela Raid in Rio’s History](https://realnews.today/media/brazil_police_raid-310x168.jpg)
More than 100 heavily armed Brazilian police officers stormed a sprawling Rio de Janeiro favela Thursday and killed at least two dozen people, a raid that human rights activists, researchers, and journalists described as the deadliest such police atrocity in the city’s history.