Brazilians Mourn After Murder of Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman, Critic of Police Killings
(World News Brazil)

In Rio de Janeiro, almost one-quarter of the population lives in the favelas which have routine poverty, police abuse, and shootouts between drug gangs, but Marielle Franco was trying to help those disadvantaged minority when she was killed on Wednesday night, according to The Guardian. Franco, 38, was a gay, black woman who defied the odds to win the fifth-highest vote count among council members when she was first elected in 2016. She was an expert on police violence and was recently speaking out against police targeting residents of the gang-controlled shantytowns. Franco was known for her history of social work in slums and was killed amid her first term in...