The circumstances of the murder of Evaldo, a 51-year-old black man, is not an exception but the rule in Brazil, as Samira Bueno and Renato Sérgio de Lima, directors of the Brazilian Forum of Public Security, have said in an article for Folha de São Paulo:
Mazingira ya mauaji ya Evaldo, mwanaume mweusi mwenye miaka 51 sio ya kipekee lakini ni ya kawaida sana Brazili kama vile Samira Bueno na Renato Sérgio de Lima, wakurugenzi wa Jukwaa la Ulinzi wa Raia Brazili, walivyosema katika makala ya Folha de São Paulo: