United by grief, mothers in Brazil demand reparations after police killed their sons
- RIO DE JANEIRO -- 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 events together and providing essential psychological support to one another — saved her life, Oliveira says.
- “Without any doubt, if I had been alone I wouldn’t have made it here, 12 years later,” she said, at a recent event at her son's old school marking the anniversary of his death.
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- RIO DE JANEIRO -- 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 events together and providing essential psychological support to one another — saved her life, Oliveira says.
- “Without any doubt, if I had been alone I wouldn’t have made it here, 12 years later,” she said, at a recent event at her son's old school marking the anniversary of his death.
Sources: ABC News