The tragedy is even the gang members were talking to us being like, man, like this one guy was like,

I tried to get out of this, I wanted to be a musician, and then I guess I didn't work hard enough

and I'm back here now. And this is a guy who's like talk to us in the Balaclava with a rifle,

having taken us away from like the gunfight. And it's just like, it's really sad there, but the thing about it is the people there were way more scared of the police.

Because in that actual favela where we were, Phalette Fogatero, I think three years ago,

they executed, and I mean executed, 13 men, disarmed on their knees, executed them, and then put them in a bin.

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