On the sands of Copacabana beach, 152 black crosses were struck, whose number corresponds to the sum of the military police who suffered violent deaths between 2013 (73) and 2014 (79 ). These crosses will be fixed next to the crosses raised three feet high, formed with the uniform of the military police stained with red ink. A poster will be then put in front of the installation, with the following words: "In memory of police officers who fell by the state's population of Rio de Janeiro. © Fabio Teixeira/Pacific Press/Alamy Live News

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