My incidents happened in 2006. One of them kind of similar in that the Tourist cops took us in their car to the Militar Police checkpoint near the favela by Ipanema but when we got there the Tourist cops ‘friend’ was not there so we circled the block for about 10 minutes and went back. This time the ‘friend’ Militar…

I can attest to the fact that the cops in Rio(Tourist cops, Federal cops, Militar Police) are, in fact, robbers and muggers. I got robbed by the cops in a similar way and very near to where the swimmers got robbed. In fact, it happened to me two nights in a row(different ways both times but both times by cops). For…