Shadowing Practice: POV: Você Entrou no BOPE para Combater o Crime e Virou Miliciano - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Level 1.
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Juramento You have 22 years and already killed 3 people before completing the first year of BOP.
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It's not the number that keeps you up, it's the facilitation.
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The first time you fell, the second time you didn't fell.
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The third time you were already thinking about the report that would be done later.
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Your instructor said that it was like, that the course exists just for this, to transform the reflex of hesitating into the act.
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You believe?
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Believe.
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The problem is that nobody told you what happens when the hesitation goes away from the time.
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But this is more late.
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First, how did you get here?
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You were born in Campo Grande, the west of the river.
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It's not a favela, it's not asfalto rich.
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It's the middle term that the Brazilian Brazilian people know well.
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Rua com buraco, escola sem professor, posto de saúde com fila de 4 horas.
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E, do outro lado da avenida, o tráfico funcionando como relógio suíço.
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Sem buraco, sem fila, sem espera.
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Seu pai era cabo da PM.
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Morreu numa abordagem de rotina quando você tinha 11 anos.
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Tiroteio em Bangu.
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Nome no muro do batalhão.
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Foto pequena no corredor que ninguém olha.
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Sua mãe ficou com você e sua irmã mais nova and with a pension that didn't pay the whole rent.
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So she was going to clean the house in Barra da Tijuca three times per week.
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You grew up knowing that you were a police officer.
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Not by pride, but by logic.
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It was the only universe that you understood.
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Fada, hierarchy, the idea that there was a right side and that your father died.
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Aos 18, you entered for PM.
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Aos 23, you got a job in CO and SP.
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De 84 candidates, 11 came to the end.
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You were one of them.
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Level 2.
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A fada preta.
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Your mother was in the school.
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She cried before you put a boina.
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Not of pride, but of fear.
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She knew what that meant.
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She saw your father's uniform on a box.
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You said that it was different.
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That the BOP was another thing.
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That you were more prepared.
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That the training was the best of the country.
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She didn't believe in anything.
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You believed for her.
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Your first year as a operator was exactly what the course promised.
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Operations in the Complex of the Aleman, in Jacarezinho, in the City of Deus.
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You entered in Beco, which normal car didn't enter.
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You took a shot with a gun in a third of the afternoon, as if it was expedient.
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You went to the battle, you had the report, you slept four hours, you started again.
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The salary was 4.200 reais, less than half of the traffic manager you helped learn in two days.
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You knew that because he said during the driving process.
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He said it was not a professional, but the number was in the head.
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Level 3.
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What the system does.
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Two years of BOP.
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You already had seen the pattern.
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You got information of intelligence.
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Operating.
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Autorized.
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You and your team were planning three days planning the entrance, routes, contingencies.
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They were in the right place, doing everything right.
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They were in the right place, they were in the right place, they were in the right place.
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In the following week, half of the prison was in the street.
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Not for a fuga, but for judicial decision.
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Audit of custody, flagrant with technical technical, a car car that the trafficked could pay and the state didn't able to rebate.
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You learned to not complain.
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Reclamar alto was to be transferred to the administrative, which was a way to be buried alive in the institution.
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But something was getting clear with the time.
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Not only the judges.
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Not only the judicial judicial system.
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There was something bad inside the entire operation.
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Information was running before the team entered.
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Alvo that was going to be 48 hours before the operation.
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Carga que evaporava no meio da rota quando a escolta era de outros batalhões.
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Você começou a observar.
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Era o tipo de coisa que o BOPE te ensina.
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Padrão de comportamento.
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Anomalia.
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O que não bate.
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3 meses observando.
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Você chegou numa conclusão que não queria chegar.
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O vazamento vinha de dentro.
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Você levou para o seu comandante.
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Ele te ouviu, anotou, falou que ia investigar.
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6 weeks later, the subtenant you suspected was transferred to Barra da Tijuca.
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The guy won the promo.
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It was the first time you really understood what your father never had chance to teach you.
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The institution protects the institution.
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You are a piece.
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When a piece is involved, she is moved.
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When you insist on it, she is involved.
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You are quiet. For now.
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4. The price of honestness.
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You have 31 years and you've already lost 4 friends.
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Not 4 friends.
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4 friends of the real.
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Those who know your name of war.
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Those who have taken your flanches without you needing to ask.
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Those who you call at 2 in the morning when your head doesn't stop and they attend without complaining.
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4. 4.
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4. 4.
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I'm talking about sacrifice and honor.
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Four viúvas that you looked at the eye without saying anything that would be worth anything.
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The fifth partner didn't die.
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He left.
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Cabo Silveira, eight years old, the best shooter of your team.
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On a Sunday morning, he arrived at the battle, gave the gun, gave the gun,
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gave the gun, signed the transfer to the administrative and went home without explaining anything to anyone.
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Three weeks later, you discovered why.
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He was devendo 28 mil reais of financing to a apartment in Cosmos.
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That he got when the wife was married to the second son, and the salary didn't close the month.
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Then the apartment suffered a lagamento.
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The bank didn't negotiate, the parcel went up and someone offered a exit.
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It was not traffic.
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It was police.
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They didn't ask much.
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Just to be able to get a call when the operation was marked for the West.
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One call.
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Sometimes, it's not that.
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Just silence at the right time.
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The Silverman was three months in this agreement before not to stop.
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But you didn't call him.
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You wanted to julgar, but you didn't.
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Because you knew exactly how much cost that apartment cost.
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You knew exactly what was 4.200 reais trying to pay parcela, supermarket, school of children, and a mother-in-law.
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The math didn't close for anyone who was honest.
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And for the first time, you got this question in mind in a way that you couldn't push for a contest.
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Honest to whom?
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To a system that promoted the guy that sold information?
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To a court that was in 48 hours whom you risked life to find?
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To a institution that paid 4.200 reais for you to enter in a vehicle with a gun
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while the manager of a vehicle earned this value in a turn?
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The question was not a good answer.
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Only answers that were different.
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Level 5.
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O primeiro contato.
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Foi numa operação na Zona Oeste que você conheceu o Major Adriano.
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Não era o nome verdadeiro.
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Ninguém chamava pelo nome verdadeiro.
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Mas todo mundo sabia quem era.
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Ex-Bop.
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12 anos de tropa.
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Tinha saído na época em que você ainda era soldado.
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Na rua, comandava um esquema de milícia que controlava gás, TV a cabo clandestina e transporte alternativo em quatro bairros de Campo Grande.
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A operação não era contra ele.
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It was against a traffic cell that had tried to expand to the area.
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You were called as a reforcer because the intelligence was a heavy gun.
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Adriano appeared in the end, not armed, not a mess.
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He got a mineral water gel in a 30 degrees in the street
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and offered to you while you were waiting for the IML to arrive.
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You accepted.
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He was with a pain.
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It was just water.
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He didn't ask anything.
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He didn't ask anything.
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He talked about the operation, about the traffic in the area, about how his police kept his community in order in a way that the police never managed.
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He spoke with the naturalness of those who think he's doing something obvious.
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You heard more than you planned to hear.
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He said something before going to go, that was simple, without a dramatic weight.
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You still believe it will change something into a hole with a gun?
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You didn't answer.
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But the question was already there.
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Two weeks later, he sent a message in a number that you didn't know he had.
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You just didn't respond.
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You didn't block.
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You got a number saved.
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Level 6.
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A line.
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You have 34 years when you cross.
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You don't have a dramatic moment.
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You don't have a night where you sit and decide to become a criminal.
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It doesn't work like that.
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It works in small schools that each one seems reasonable.
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The first one was information.
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A operation marked for Campo Grande, area of Adriano.
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You didn't tell him.
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Just not told the team that there was a informant in the area that could compromise the abordage.
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Technically, you preserved a font.
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Technically.
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The second step was omission.
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The routine.
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Carro with two men from the scheme of...
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Adriano.
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$15.000 in specie in the port-a-malas.
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You checked the documents, found everything right, and sent to follow.
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No one asked what was on the port-a-malas.
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Why did you not asked?
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The third step was money.
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$8000,00 in a envelope that appeared in your arm's pocket.
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No billet, no name.
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You looked at that envelope for 40 minutes.
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Then you guard it.
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Each one had a justification, that if you were talking in loud voice, it was almost reasonable.
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You didn't get anyone in the real world.
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You were navigating in a system that was already gone before you arrived.
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You were receiving what you always deserved and never received.
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You were doing what Silveira did, just with more control.
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But Silveira stopped.
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You didn't stopped.
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Your mother rang that month asking where the money came to deposit in her account.
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You said that she had made a special security security in an event.
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She didn't.
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She didn't believe in you and fing to believe.
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The first was in the BOP.
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Level 7.
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You have 38 years and still use a fard.
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This is the part that people outside don't understand.
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You didn't leave the PM.
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You didn't ask for a loan, didn't become civil, didn't open office.
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You continued entering the battle every day.
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Continuou fazendo operação.
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Continuou sendo o Major Carvalho.
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Referência de tropa.
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Homem de confiança.
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Aquele que os recrutas mais novos observam de longe querendo ser.
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A farda virou cobertura.
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A melhor cobertura possível.
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Enquanto você operava pelo estado de manhã, de tarde você operava pelo esquema.
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Não diretamente.
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Nunca diretamente.
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You had learned with Adriano that the mouth is a mouth exposition.
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You were the brain, not the mouth.
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You had people to hand.
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The scheme in Campo Grande grew.
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It started with gas and TV clandestine.
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Then came internet.
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Then transport.
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Then taxa of security for local commerce.
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300 reais per month for every establishment.
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And nobody refused.
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Because everyone knew what happened with who refused.
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You didn't talk to anyone.
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You never talked directly to anyone.
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There were people to do it.
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Your salary of PM continued to be 4.200 reais.
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In the declaration of income, you were a major endivided like all others.
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In fact, you were moving 180.000 reais per month outside.
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The house in recreation was the name of your cousin.
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The apartment in Itangangá was in a holding that a driver had sold.
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The car was financed by a CPF of a cousin who never knew that the car existed.
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You learned this architecture with time.
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You learned that money is empty, has to circulate before you stop.
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That a property is better than a bank.
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That the error of the amateurs is to ostent it fast.
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You didn't ostent it.
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You continued taking conduit when you were not in service.
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You continued eating at the restaurant near the bar.
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You continued eating the same phone for 2 years.
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The discipline of BOP taught you to be invisible when you needed.
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Now you used this for something else.
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In a sexta night, you went to a soldier of your team.
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26 years old, in an operation in the complex of Penha.
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Three shots of a gun.
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You left a woman and a girl of eight months.
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You stayed one hour, put the hand of the wife, said the words right, and left.
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In the car, in a meeting with two of your staff members, you didn't think about the soldier.
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You thought about the meeting.
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There was a price in Senador Vasconcelos that was atrasated on the payment for the third month following.
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You didn't think about the soldado.
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This was the moment you understood that he had crossed out of the way.
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Not when you took the first envelope.
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Not when you omit the first abordage.
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It was there, in the car, on the next night, when a young man of 26 years old died in your command
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and his head had gone to another meeting.
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8. The cerco.
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You have 42 years when the federal police appears.
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You didn't know the total risk.
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You knew that the risk existed.
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You knew that the PF had a specialization in military since 2019.
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You knew that two schemes of the West had fallen in the last 18 months.
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You had taken precaution.
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You had cut contact directly with Adriano for two years.
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You had changed the coordinators.
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You had increased the gap between you and anything.
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It was not enough.
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Two agents of the PF appeared in a bar near the battle in a 5th of the afternoon and they were presented.
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They didn't get them, they didn't get them, they didn't make a scene.
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They just said they wanted to talk, they had some questions about activities in the West, which would be better you cooperate now than later.
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You know that you had the same abordage.
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You even had used it in suspects.
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It was the abordage of who already had enough to get you.
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but you prefer to see if you give someone else before.
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You asked to talk to your lawyer.
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They smiled and said that it was your right.
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That night, you went to your mother's house for the first time in three weeks.
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She had 67 years old.
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Problem of pressure, arthritis on the two legs.
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You arrived with fruit and with a ready excuse about why she had gone.
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She She didn't ask a excuse.
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She looked at the door, looked at the eyes for 5 seconds and said something just.
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You are okay?
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It was a question of health.
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It was a question of her to you, the truth.
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That she had been waiting for years because she had afraid of the answer.
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You said she was okay.
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She sent you.
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She let you go.
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She took off food that didn't need to be washed out, because she had done that day.
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waiting for you to appear.
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You ate in silence.
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She was in the chair, without eating, just looking.
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Not with a madness, with a sad sad feeling of who understood something that she didn't want to have understood.
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You went to leave with the fruit still on the floor, and the feeling of that was the last time she looked like this.
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Eight months later, she died of a fever, while you were formally being indicated in a room in the Superintendency of the PF in the Praça Mauá.
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You were aware of the phone of your lawyer at the time of the appointment.
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You asked for the end of that day.
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They left.
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You went out.
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You sat in the room in a room near the room.
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You looked at the floor for 40 minutes.
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You didn't cry.
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You had to cry in some moment between the BOP and what was coming after.
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You didn't know exactly when.
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This also cost you.
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Level 9.
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The cycle.
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You have 44 years.
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A fada was returned.
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The process goes on the federal court.
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Your lawyer speaks in accordance with the agreement, speaks in collaboration, speaks in reduction of pen.
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You hear and not hear.
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You live in an apartment in Sulacap, long of everything, of purpose.
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The formal bens were blocked.
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The informal, those who were in the name of other people, are being...
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...desmontated by who took the scheme after you fell.
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It was fast.
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Not in a week.
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The same scheme that you built, worked against you with the same efficiency as you built.
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You knew it would be like this.
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You had done the same thing when Adriano went to leave.
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One afternoon, you went to Campo Grande, by the way, without car, without a seat, for the first time in years.
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Just walk.
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You walk by the street where you grew.
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The hole that you had on the asphalt when you were a child is still there.
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The biggest bar that you closed when you were 15 years old is now a venda of gas, those with letters of adhesive on the wall.
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You turn to a side and stop.
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At the end of the street, there is a block.
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Two cars atravessados, four men, one with a radio in the hand.
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You know the block.
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You put the block like this, hundreds of times.
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But these are not the PM.
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And then you see the boy, 18, maybe 19, a black car, a gun, a gun, a gun, a gun, a posture of who ended.
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He is in the entrance of the street, looking at the block with a expression that you recognize of core.
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Determination.
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A determination limpa of who will still believe that it will make a difference.
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The same look that you had.
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He is on the side of the street, looking at the gun, not a gun, checking.
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You lift the gun, showing that he is not a gun, saying that he is just passing.
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He looks like a quick ride.
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He looks like a quick ride.
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He looks like a guy trying to understand what he sees.
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He looks like he needs to say something.
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He goes three square feet without stopping.
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He stops in a empty car and looks at the ground.
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He's entered in the BOP to be what this guy is now.
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He's in a voice-out with a head-out
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and a photo of your father in the back of the bag that it would be the front.
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The guy that impede the man to get to the wrong side wrong side.
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And you turned the wrong side.
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Not once, in small, so small, that each one seemed reasonable.
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Until one day you were on the other side, without having any line that seemed big enough enough to mark the road.
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This is the danger that nobody tells you.
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It's not the corruption-scancarated, the guy that comes in the first day wanting propina.
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It's the erosión.
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It's the system that pays 4.200 reais for you to risk your life
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and you can't get in 48 hours who you've got.
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It's the colleague who earned promo for vazar information.
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It's the envelope that appears in the bag and stays there 40 minutes while you decide.
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It's the amount of 40 minutes like this.
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The bus comes.
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You enter.
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You sit in the last bank.
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The window.
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Like I was when I was sold out
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and I was back from the table and I was hiding behind the table for not to be executed in transport.
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You look at the window while the camp is big.
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There, on the street, the girl from the black man continues on the block with that clean eye.
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You wait for him to stay like this.
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You know that he probably won't.
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And the cycle continues.
About This Lesson
In this lesson, you will practice advanced English listening and speaking skills by analyzing a gripping narrative about the experience of a police officer in Brazil. By engaging with this material, you will improve your English pronunciation and fluency while exploring complex themes related to societal challenges and personal choices. This lesson is designed to enhance your ability to articulate thoughts on difficult subjects, using context and emotion effectively in conversation.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Left unspoken - an unexpressed thought that influences behavior or choices.
- Reluctance - hesitation or unwillingness to act.
- Hierarchy - a system where people are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
- Routine inspection - a standard check performed for security or safety purposes.
- Community challenges - social issues that affect different areas, such as crime or poverty.
- Confrontation - a hostile or argumentative meeting or situation.
- Preparedness - the state of being ready for an event or situation.
- Field operations - practical activities carried out in real-life settings, especially in police work.
Practice Tips
To fully benefit from this lesson and improve your English speaking, it's essential to engage with the video using the shadowing technique. This involves listening to the transcript while trying to speak along with the narrator, mimicking their intonation and speed. Given the emotional and dramatic tone of the content, pay attention to how the narrator emphasizes specific words or phrases—this will aid you in understanding how to convey similar emotions in your speech.
Here are some tailored tips for practicing with this video:
- Start by watching the video once without interruptions to get the overall narrative. Focus on understanding the context and emotions being conveyed.
- Listen again, focusing solely on pronunciation. Pause after each sentence to repeat it. This is your opportunity to improve English pronunciation through repetition.
- Use the shadowspeak method by repeating phrases just after hearing them to develop rhythm and fluency.
- Record yourself speaking key phrases and listen back to assess your pronunciation and intonation.
- Engage with others by discussing the themes of the video, using the new vocabulary you've learned. This will enhance your conversational skills.
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