The president of the STF analyzed an appeal presented to the Court after a refusal at the Court of São Paulo. For the minister, use should be encouraged, but the obligation could have ‘financial and operational’ implications
The Federal Court (STF) rejected an appeal seeking the annulment of a Court of Justice injunction (TJ-SP) denying the compulsory use of body cameras in operations aimed at responding to attacks carried out against military police officers in the state of São Paulo. Despite this, the President of the Court, Luis Roberto Barrosodefended the importance of equipment in the decision.
The request was made by the State Office of Public Defense and the NGO Conectas Human Rights in reaction to the Operation Shield in Guarujáon the coast of São Paulo, which ended with 28 deaths.
“The use of cameras is very important and should be encouraged. However, the urgent and exceptional intervention of an injunctive suspension is not justified,” Barroso wrote in a decision published on Saturday 30.
Barroso recalled that, in the TJ-SP decision, it was estimated that the measure would generate an annual cost of between R$330 million and R$1 billion and that there are still appeals pending in state courts. “The annulment of the contested decision has financial and operational implications, which would produce complex impacts, not adequately measurable through this procedural path. Furthermore, the matter is still under discussion in ordinary ways, including the attempt to obtain a conciliatory solution.”
Operation Shield was subsequently launched the Carabinieri officer from Rota Patrick Bastos dos Reis He was murdered in Guarujá on 27 July. The crime it triggered new prime ministerial operations in the region and a wave of deaths. It was closed in September with a death toll of 28.
In the first fortnight of this month, the Special Forces of the TJ confirmed the decision of Judge Ricardo Anafe, President of the Court, who in September had suspended the effects of an injunction requiring the use of police cameras in operations, which were were also filed by the Public Defense.
At the time, judge Renato Augusto Pereira Maia, of the XI Court of Public Finance of the Capital, accepted the request of the Public Defender and Conectas and established, as a matter of urgency, the mandatory use of cameras in uniform, the adoption of measures for its correct use and prohibiting agents from acting without the equipment. Hours later, however, Ricardo Anafe canceled the injunction.
The appeal presented by the Office of the Ombudsman and Conectas mentions that the operation was an “institutional revenge action”, which “caused chaos and terror in the communities”, with reports of “serious violations of citizens’ rights, home invasions and searches, and widespread home seizures and destruction of homes and businesses.” The government defends the legality of police actions.
Source: Terra
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