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More Rio Protest Over Death of Favela Resident: Daily

By Michela DellaMonica, Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Another protest closed the streets of Copacabana, the second since Tuesday evening, in relation to the shooting death of a Pavão Pavãozinho favela community resident, allegedly by police. Yesterday's march followed the the burial of 26 year-old dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira.

Hundreds of people demanding justice, marched from St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Botafogo to the Pavão Pavãozinho favela community which sits behind Copacabana . . .

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