Brutality in Uniform

Marcelo Silva Vaz, 32, and Bruno Coelho da Agonia, 26, were inseparable in life, and in death. “Bruno was a wonderful young man,” Marcelo´s mother, Márcia Silva, told me, as his father looked on sadly. “They were always together.” The young men met in 2010, their parents said, while working at a tuna cannery in Rio de Janeiro. Bruno was a bachelor and a fan of romantic music who lived in a small apartment behind his parents’ house. Marcelo was a father of four who volunteered taking poor children to the beach to play frescobol, a paddle ball game. He eventually left the cannery and worked as…

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