According to data from the Secretary of Justice and Citizenship of the state of São Paulo, more reports of crimes of racism and racial slur have been registered between January and April 2022 than in the whole of 2021.
174 cases have already been registered in São Paulo cities this year, against 155 during the entire previous year. During the same months of 2021, the documents indicate 20 cases – an increase of 625% in the comparison between the two years.
Between 2020 and 2021, there was also an increase, but less expressive: in 2020, there were 49 cases.
recent cases
In recent days, some cases of racial prejudice have taken over the news and social networks.
One of them took place in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, where a retired public defender called a man a “monkey”. The moment was recorded on video and a police report denounced the crime as an injury by prejudice this Tuesday (3). According to the police record, the case occurred when the victim and a colleague were delivering to the luxury condominium where the former defender lives, and parked a vehicle in front of her home’s garage. She asked for the vehicle to be removed, and when she was not promptly answered, she called the delivery people “monkeys” and threw objects towards the van.
Another case that gained repercussion took place on the São Paulo subway, where a white woman asked a black passenger “not to touch her hair, because she could get sick”. Then a riot broke out at the station and security was called.
With information from Bruno Laforé, Carolina Figueiredo, Renan Fiuza, Tiago Tortella, Bruna Carvalho, Lucas Janone and Pauline Almeida.
*Under supervision.
Source: CNN Brasil
