Osasco

“We have way more important things to talk about than my race,” said Ribamar Antônio da Silva, a city council member seeking reelection in the southeastern city of Osasco.

The 9-millimeter bullets came from a batch stolen from federal police in 2006, some of which were also used in a massacre in Osasco, near São Paulo in 2015, in which 17 people were killed.

Then he extended an arm and pointed a black pouch toward his parishioners in the working-class neighborhood of Osasco.

The August attacks happened in the municipal areas of Osasco and Barueri.

A total of 15 people were killed in eight attacks in Osasco; three died in two incidents in Barueri.