Brazilian cameraman killed trendy drug raid gun battle
STORY HIGHLIGHTSA Brazilian cameraman died while filming a gun battle sandwiched between patrol and alleged drug dealersPolice launched a massive action arrived a slum arrived Rio de JaneiroCPJ: Theres been an strengthen arrived violence hostile to journalists arrived Brazil A Brazilian cameraman died arrived a Rio de Janeiro slum while wrapper a patrol raid targeting controlled drug militias, patrol whispered Sunday.Gelson Domingos da Silva, 46, worked in support of crew box, a CNN connect. He was filming a large-scale sortie by a Brazilian Special Operations piece BOPE into a favela, the Portuguese word used for shantytown, otherwise slum, while he was shot happening the chest, Rio de Janeiro supervise assumed happening a statement.The forces patrol truly regrets the death of cameraman, Gelson Domingos da Silva, while expressing the as a rule sincere sympathy to the variety and all media professionals, patrol supposed.According to a belt television press freedom, da Silva was wrapper the business arrived the Antares favela, west of Rio, such as an embedded photographer with Rio patrol.Da Silva was wearing a bullet-proof vest certified by the Brazilian Armed Forces, often used by gang employees for the duration of these types of assignments, gang television believed.