[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Is this legal?

[gswilder]

Time for our outstanding SOS to work his magic.

[GraceG]

We have Kayaks in Rio hitting discarded couches in the water....

Everyone knows Brazil is a JOKE...

We have an Olympian get robbed and he gets treated like a criminal by the Brazilian government...

Everyone ALREADY knows Brazil is a JOKE...

You can’t close the barn door AFTER the animals escape Brazil!

[lee martell]

Haven’t they already done that? Or does do they mean the swimmers may leave when they change their testimony to agree with the crooked Brazilian Judges abridged version of events?

[dfwgator]

America Held Hostage : Day One.

[stars & stripes forever]

The Olympics have turned into a cesspool of political correctness, global warming, and anti-Americanism. Its time is over.

[cornfedcowboy]

Apparently Brazil doesn’t honor our 4th and 5th amendment.

[ArcadeQuarters]

It was a mistake to allow them to host the Olympics. They should never be allowed to have any international event there again.

[EinNYC]

Brazil, especially Rio, has proven to be such a lawless, disease-and-crime-ridden cesspool, it’s really a chutzpah to demand any legal procedures from the U.S. team. Is Brazil just trying to get something over on the U.S.?

[Steely Tom]

It’s All About the Benjamins.

[Blackirish]

What’s going on here? Some rogue judge wants to start it up with the USA?

[TChad]

It’s time for Obama to visit Brazil and demonstrate just how low he can bow.

[dalereed]

In every other country in the world, all participants in anything contraversatly in an accident or illegal is guilty until proved innocent.

When I crashed my airplane in Mexico I was held under house arrest for three weeks and all my passengers for a little over a week.

[sockmonkey]

My favorite headline from the Olympics:

Russian ‘diplomat’ drags armed robber into his vehicle and shoots him dead near Rio Olympic venue: Motorcycle thief smashes window of consul staff’s BMW but is killed by martial arts expert

[Timpanagos1]

“Is this legal?”

Here is a link to Brazil’s Constition.

You can review to see if it is all legal.

https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Brazil_2014.pdf

[stillfree?]

Third world countries suck.

[Sirius Lee]

Ah, remember how all the economic and financial geniuses were flapping their mouths on about how the U.S. was doomed and the BRICs were the future?

You''d have to be an idiot to have anything to do with Brazil. You can plop a people on the richest resources on the planet, but if the people are useless the resources will just sit there either being walked upon or utilized to catch turds. That's Brazil.

[broken_arrow1]

I am struggling to understand the Brazilian version - why would they feign being robbed at gunpoint?

[Caipirabob]

If they have evidence that the individuals filed a false report, this is a perfectly legitimate action.

I do not know either way, however...

Having been to Brasil it's easy to believe a young man and friends might be tempted to visit an "inferno" and lose most of their possessions to the prostitutes working there. That or having brought some new "admirers" back to the dorms, suddenly realizing that their pants were not the only thing they lost.

"E Brasil..." and this is just part of the territory.

I am not sure who is right and who is wrong. Knowing Brasil, and knowing that their police have also participated in the mass extermination of the homeless population that I personally witnessed the aftermath of, it's also very easy to believe the athlete's story.

The security scan reports will be telltale. It would serve the truth if they simply testify and get this over with.

[djpg]

So what if they are lying? Hillary Clinton does it all the time, and she is the leading candidate for POTUS.

[Gay State Conservative]

Brazilian law...and they're certainly subject to it. Whether it's legal or not this represents yet another example of why it's unwise for Westerners to travel to Fourth World cesspools (I've been there...it *is* Fourth World).