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76carried the minor by his feet to the police vehicle, allowing his head hit theground repeatedly, before bringing him to the Souza Aguiar hospital,where he arrived already dead.According to witnesses, Rodrigo was descending along one of thefavela's alleyways to the soccer field, as he did frequently, when a group ofpolice stormed the hill, heading up from the bottom. On encountering thepolice Rodrigo raised his hands, but police shot him near the ear.Authorities have suspended Sgt. Pascoal, as well as five otherofficers involved in the incident. The police investigation into the caserecommended indictment of all six police.Source: Global Justice Center4.3. Anderson Carlos Crispiniano,20.On the morning of June 28, 2000, five armed men took AndersonCrispiniano from his house on Adeus Hill, a favela in suburban Rio deJaneiro. Two of them were dressed in civilian garb; the other three wereusing Civil Police vests. Although they did not have a warrant for his arrestor any evidence of his having committed crime, the men accusedCrispiniano of a two homicides and of hiding drugs in his house.According to statements made by witnesses to the Global JusticeCenter, the police did not inform the family of the location to whichCrispiniano was brought. The police guaranteed that they would establishcontact and demanded that Crispiniano's family provide a contacttelephone number. While leaving the hill, a number of residents tried tostop the police from leaving with Crispiniano. The police fired tworounds, dispersing the crowd.Later that morning, family members went to Polinter, a Rio deJaneiro police station where detainees from Adeus Hill are often brought.They were informed that no prisoner by the name of "AndersonCrispiniano" had been registered as arrested. When the family membersleft the station, they received a call on their cell phone from the policeinvolved, who demanded that they not involve the police. They callersindicated that they would phone again.At approximately noon the kidnappers called again but would notdivulge the location of their prisoner. At the end of the afternoon they