BRAZIL, 2021 The young man was participating in a phenomenon called “rolezinho.” These are gatherings of young people on motorcycles, usually in large parking lots in front of shopping malls. These gatherings are accompanied by loud music, loud modified exhausts, joyrides through the city, and dangerous stunts. It is no surprise that these gatherings attract police attention and piss off local residents, who complain about the noise.
Gangs do not exactly like police attention because it can interfere with their illegal drug trade. For this reason, they often enforce their own laws in the territories they control and make sure those laws are followed. This young man was unlucky enough to live in one of the favelas controlled by such a gang.
When the police started paying attention to him, the gangsters decided to teach him a lesson according to their own rules. They brutally beat him with wooden sticks.
