# Bolsonaro defends police use of force and legal protections

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2116613140473630901
- Source account: [@joaorhtcdz](https://x.com/joaorhtcdz)
- Source language: Portuguese
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:48
- Published: 2026-10-31
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections) You stated, uh, that violence is fought with force, fought with intelligence and, in your words, if necessary, with even more violence still.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=14) Even more violence, candidate. Uh, how do you think the Brazilians living in these communities controlled by drug traffickers, who, who are victims of these all- too- frequent shootouts, how do they receive a statement like yours?

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=27) With even more violence, which I did say, yes, what you said there.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=33) Uh, if the criminal over there is firing a seven- six- two, the police officer on this side has to have a.50- caliber.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=40) If he has a .50-caliber, you have to have a tank on this side.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=43) This kind of person, you can't treat them as if they were a normal human being, okay?

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=50) Who should be respected, who's a victim of society.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=54) What do we have to do? In a place where you can keep decent people in the community free of the line of fire and with everything aimed at them, and give the police and public security officers a legal exemption from criminal liability.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=71) He goes in, solves the problem, if he kills ten, fifteen, or twenty, with ten or thirty shots each, he has to be decorated, not prosecuted.

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=81) You see a gang here in Rio de Janeiro, in Praça Seca, with twenty men with rifles.

[1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=85) How are you supposed to treat tho-- those people?

[1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=87) Ask them to raise their hands, give them a little flower, or shoot? You have to shoot.

[1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=94) He fired intending to kill. Of course he fired intending to kill, for fuck's sake.

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=98) Just don't rape, kidnap, or commit robbery- murder, and you won't end up there, for fuck's sake.

[1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XVNVT0E8puH4/en/bolsonaro-defends-police-use-of-force-and-legal-protections?t=104) That's it.