• Latin America: Shock and anger in Brazil over the brutal murder of a black man by two vigilantes in a supermarket

The Brazilian police arrested on Tuesday the supervisor of a Carrefour supermarket in Porto Alegre (south), as the alleged "co-author" of the brutal death of a black man who was beaten by two vigilantes from the premises last Thursday.

"She had authority over the two guards. Because she has a decisive position,

the law considers her as a co-author of the homicide.

Her temporary imprisonment was requested," said investigator Vanessa Pitrez of the Civil Police, quoted by the portal of UOL news.

Supervisor Adriana Alves Dutra appears with the two guards when they subdue

Joao Batista Rodrigues Freitas

in the Carrefour parking lot, where they beat him to death, according to a shocking video released in the media.

Both guards are in custody.

The official, who was also seen recording the incident,

would have lied in her first testimony to the investigators,

saying that she did not listen when the victim asked for help and that one of the guards was a police officer who was a client of the supermarket, hiding that he worked at Carrefour.

"Help me," Joao is heard saying in the video while he was shortened, when the supervisor was a few steps from the scene.

"It hurts, I'm dying,"

added the 40-year-old man, who passed away on the eve of Black Awareness Day, an event celebrated in much of Brazil.

Alves Dutra, according to excerpts from his testimony broadcast by the Globo channel, said that he

asked the guards several times to release Joao.

However, in parts of the video she is seen warning him to calm down to be released or telling him that he will not be released until the police arrive.

Commissioner

Roberta Bertoldo

indicated that the supervisor gave "contradictory statements."

"It remains until the end of the investigation to see if these contradictions were motivated by something that they wanted to cover up or not."

The crime provoked demonstrations in several cities.

On Monday a march in Porto Alegre ended in

clashes between a group of protesters and the police in front of a branch of Carrefour,

a French chain.

After recording

losses in its shares

on Monday, Carrefour announced the creation of a fund of 25 million reais (about 4.8 million dollars) to promote actions against racism in Brazil.

That same day,

12 Carrefour supplier companies,

including giants such as Coca Cola, Danone, Pepsico, Heineken, JBS, General Mills, Kellogg's, L'Oréal or Nestlé, announced a coalition that intends to take initiatives "to combat structural racism "in a country that was the last in the Americas to abolish slavery, in 1888.

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