Posted on 10/29/2025 5:55:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Red Command members respond with gunfire after ‘biggest ever’ police assault on city’s drug traffickers
Gang members in Rio de Janeiro bombed police with drones in retaliation for their deadliest raid on the city’s drug traffickers.
In scenes akin to a war zone, residents of the city’s poorest northern neighbourhoods scrambled for cover as 2,500 armed officers engaged in an exchange of fire with Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of Brazil’s most powerful crime groups.
Few could have anticipated the scale of the operation: 64 people killed, more than 80 arrested and 12 hours of gunfire.
Members of Red Command responded to police with gunfire, barricading roads with burning cars and dropping grenades using drones, officials said.
At least four police officers were killed and 15 more were injured.
Residents of favelas – poor and densely populated neighbourhoods often ruled by criminal gangs – may have sensed that a police raid was coming. Brazilian authorities have a history of launching major operations ahead of international events, and the city is set to host the C40 World Mayors Summit next week.
Just before dawn, armed police stormed into the suburbs of Alemão and Penha with 32 armoured vehicles, two helicopters, 12 demolition vehicles and drones as part of “Operation Containment”.
The goal of the largest raid in the state’s history, police said, was to “capture criminal leaders” and “counter the territorial expansion” of Red Command.
However, gang members had quickly shown signs of resistance – using drones to drop explosives on the advancing police forces, in what Claudio Castro, the state governor of Rio de Janeiro, described as an act of “narco-terrorism”.
Mr Castro, a staunch ally of Jair Bolsonaro, the former Right-wing president who is currently in prison, posted a video of what appeared to be a gang-controlled drone...
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The latest trend and here we find out the gangs are already using it.
Everything’s up to date in Rio City 🎶
They’ve gone about as far as they can go. 🎶
How long until angry Antifa types will use these against ICE and the American police?
And I am free at last
What a blast
Oh the hue and cry from the UN and all sorts of people sobbing about due process. It was a raid, people. Police were being shot at and bombed! How are they supposed to arrest criminals under those circumstances?! I don’t know who started shooting or what rights were ignored, but drone-dropped bombs severely limits normal police procedures.
Using drones with the fringe on top?
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