Complexo do Alemão

Despair, and Grim Acceptance, Over Killings by Brazil’s Police

By SIMON ROMERO and TAYLOR BARNESMAY 21, 2015 RIO DE JANEIRO — Eduardo de Jesus was on his doorstep in Complexo do Alemão, a vast maze here of cinder block homes, when his mother heard the loud blast of gunfire. Seconds later, she saw Eduardo, 10, lying dead from a gunshot wound to the head, and she ran toward the police officer holding the gun. “I grabbed him by the vest and yelled, ‘You killed my boy, you wretch,’ ” said his mother, Terezinha Maria de Jesus, 40. “He told me, ‘Just as I killed your son, I can kill…