“It is like a scene from centuries ago,” detective Pedro Luis de Souza told The Guardian. He shook his head, unable to speak because he was gagged. Two security guards who were contracted by a Ricoy supermarket in Brazil are accused of whipping a teen while naked for allegedly stealing chocolate. “Are you going to come back?” someone can be heard asking the child in the 40-second video.
The unidentified 17-year-old boy’s trousers were around his ankles when the footage showed him being beaten with an electric cable inside a private jail in São Paulo, according to the Brazilian daily newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. Cellphone video of a Black boy naked and whimpering while being whipped in Brazil allegedly for stealing four chocolate bars is dredging up a painful history in the country for Black Brazilians.
