One 20-year-old straight male described his experience: “He asked me like do you really need the money? At that moment I thought I did. Many of the stories detailed in the report are telling and a great deal of those who engaged in the work didn’t identify as gay-but they found themselves selling their bodies to people of the same sex in order to survive. “And if we were really going to be able to serve the needs of these young people we needed to know exactly what their experiences were and the large breadth of their experiences.” “I realized at that point that there was so much that we didn’t know about this population,” she tells TIME. “All this is connected to the slavery past in Brazil where Blacks were whipped night and day,” Adami told The Guardian.Meredith Dank, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute and lead author of the study, said she realized during earlier research on sex work that there was not enough good information about why LGBT youths made these decisions, so the study focused on letting them tell their own stories. But it was filmed,” Humberto Adami, a Black lawyer from Rio de Janeiro, told the newspaper.Īdami, who’s also president of the Brazilian bar association’s Black Slavery Truth Commission, said the fact the guards filmed “the torture” showed they were sure they would not get caught. “We will give all the support needed.”įor some Black Brazilians, the video shows how deeply rooted racism is in Brazil, where more than half of the population identifies as Black or of mixed race, The Guardian reported. “We were shocked by the gratuitous and meaningless torture on a teenage victim,” the company said in the statement. The supermarket said in a statement to the media that the supermarket no longer contracts with the company that employs the guards.
He said it was the third time the same guards assaulted him allegedly for stealing from the supermarket and that he’d been living on the streets since he was 12 years old, Folha de S.Paulo reported. “They said if I spoke to anyone, they would kill me,” he told the news source. The boy told TV Globo the guards threatened him if he spoke up about the incident. He added that the crime of torture carries a prison sentence of up to eight years. “They tied him up and whipped him until he promised to not do it again,” de Souza told The Guardian. The boy told de Souza the guards stopped him as he was leaving the supermarket. He started looking into the incident, interviewed the victim and identified the two security guards, he told the British newspaper.
He described the victim as “a defenseless, homeless black man … A victim of society, I would say.”ĭe Souza told The Guardian he was “extremely shocked” when a journalist sent him the video on Monday regarding the alleged theft at a Ricoy supermarket. “It is like a scene from centuries ago,” detective Pedro Luis de Souza told The Guardian. He shook his head, unable to speak because he was gagged. Two security guards who were contracted by a Ricoy supermarket in Brazil are accused of whipping a teen while naked for allegedly stealing chocolate. “Are you going to come back?” someone can be heard asking the child in the 40-second video. The unidentified 17-year-old boy’s trousers were around his ankles when the footage showed him being beaten with an electric cable inside a private jail in São Paulo, according to the Brazilian daily newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. Cellphone video of a Black boy naked and whimpering while being whipped in Brazil allegedly for stealing four chocolate bars is dredging up a painful history in the country for Black Brazilians.