According to '' The Wall Street Journal '' , " Over the past 60 years , as many as 1.5 million Brazilians have taken part in lynchings ... In Brazil , mobs now kill — or try to kill — more than one suspected lawbreaker a day , according to University of São Paulo sociologist José de Souza Martins , Brazil ’s leading expert on lynchings . " In May 2015 , a sixteen-year-old girl was lynched in Rio Bravo by a vigilante mob after being accused of involvement in the killing of a taxi driver earlier in the month
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May 2015 Rio Bravo lynching
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