I don't know the history and one would suspect that this is not a brand new confrontation, drug gangs versus police.
It reminds me of some futuristic movie setting where the fabric of a cooperative society has vanished replaced by gang law and pretend justice based in brutality.
The closest thing to this in the USA is the recent activity of the Tea Party, with their quasi-militaristic demonstrations and simmering undertone of armed mayhem.
CS Monitor: Amid violent flareup in Rio, Brazil defends its security strategy
...dozens of cars, buses, and vans have been set ablaze in an apparently coordinated assault from the city’s entrenched organized crime members.
In many cases, armed bandits have forced motorists from their vehicles to rob them and set the cars on fire...
In the meantime, the violence continues. Today, Army reinforcements circled the Complexo do Alemão, a large slum in the north of the city. Rio authorities have long recognized that the slum has become a haven for organized crime members...
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