The São Paulo Court of Justice (TJSP) has archived the criminal case in which two military police officers (PMs) were investigated for the murder of a man with schizophrenia. The execution took place in the early hours of August 16 last year in Diadema, in the urban area of the capital São Paulo, and was revealed by police. Capitals.
Dean Wesley Batista dos Santos was 35 years old and experiencing a psychotic episode when he was shot by military police officers Pedro Henrique Leite Santos and Thiago William Martins.
The victim’s mother, Antonia Regina Gonsalves, witnessed the entire scene. He told the reporter: “It was a brutal crime. I saw my son killed, and I saw his despair and pain.”
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Regina reports the pain of seeing her son killed in an outbreak by military police
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Dean Wesley Batista dos Santos, 35, had schizophrenia and was killed by police during the outbreak.
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What happened
Diener was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 18, and has been undergoing treatment ever since. However, he still had sporadic psychotic episodes, such as that early morning of August 16.
His mother called SAMU and explained that her son was having a schizophrenic episode. The team also asked her to contact the military police to ensure the safety of the rescuers, which was done.
During the outbreak, Diener had a kitchen knife in his hand and a key chain with a pocket knife in his pants pocket. After the unit arrived, he approached the paramedics carrying a bladed weapon, which sparked a reaction from the police.
Soldiers Pedro Henrique and Thiago William shot the man five times. One of the bullets struck a SAMU rescuer in the hand, requiring him to be taken to hospital.
Four other projectiles hit Diner: in the neck, heart area, arm, and back. He died at the scene.
“Four shots weren’t needed, so what’s the point? Just one shot, my son might be alive,” Regina said.
The mother, who witnessed the entire event, reported it to Capitals At the time, he was desperate to see his son shot dead.
“I started screaming, screaming, screaming for them to stop. My son was lying on his back. His back was up and they claim it was self-defense. Self-defense because there was a sick person, a small kitchen knife. Why didn’t they shoot my son in the legs? Why didn’t they hit him?”, the woman asked.
The PMs had a taser and did not use it
Shortly after the murder, a police investigation was launched to investigate the actions of the police and the potential liability of the agents. As a result of the investigation, images from troopers’ body cameras were requested, which revealed that the use of a non-lethal weapon had been a topic of discussion among police shortly before the shooting.
In an audio-recorded conversation, a police officer asks: “You know knife incidents don’t involve stun guns, right?” This statement raised doubts in the State Public Defender’s (DPE) office as to whether there were instructions not to use the equipment, which was not made clear.
Another clip, captured by Private Thiago’s camera, shows a police officer asking: “Are you afraid of the shock, policeman?”
Photos and audio recordings taken by the investigation showed that police officers were carrying a stun gun during the operation that led to Diener’s death. One officer, who did not fire a shot, stated that he had the non-lethal weapon in his hand, but “did not have time to activate it.”
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The agents’ cameras also reveal that they acted insensitively in the face of what happened. Denner’s mother had already been informed Capitals The police officers laughed after taking the boy’s life, but the investigation recorded evidence that the soldiers also mocked the victim.
Shortly after Diener’s death, people questioned police about the incident and confirmed that the victim was suffering from mental illness. In response, the Prime Minister, who drove the support vehicle and did not fire a shot, said: “This is a problem for crazy people.”
The same officer took pictures of the victim and the knife she was holding with his personal cell phone, before forensic experts arrived at the scene. He is one of the clients who had the stun gun in his possession during the operation and later stated that he did not have time to use the device.
The victim’s mother said, referring to the dropping of the criminal case: “I was there warning him that he was sick, and they are still doing that. And now they are there laughing, just as they laughed at my son’s body covered in blood.”
The police return to the streets and the action is archived
Privates Pedro Henrique Leite Santos and Thiago William Martins, who were investigated for murder, were not formally dismissed from the company.
They were transferred to administrative service shortly after the events, but returned to the streets later, the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) informed. Capitals At the beginning of September this year. At that time the investigation was still ongoing.
On September 11, Attorney General Marco Juliu Gonçalves, from the Public Ministry in São Paulo, promoted a freeze on the investigation into the soldiers.
The prosecutor stated that the body cameras of the police officers show the dynamics of the events and that they corroborate the accounts given by the police officers and rescuers. He also stressed that using a stun gun was “impractical.”
“The military police acted on the basis of excluding the illegality of self-defense by a third party,” Gonsalves said. The Public Prosecutor also announced that “the procedure was carried out within the limits of the law, without any violation or transgression being proven.”
After representation from the MPSP, Judge José Pedro Rebelo Giannini ordered the case closed. The decision was reported to the Diadema Civil Police, which was investigating the case, last Tuesday (18/11).
Diner’s mother expressed her regret over the dismissal of the case. He told the reporter, “This does not exist… it does not exist… How can two people be released in this way? Now what am I going to live for? I have no reason to stay alive.”
The mother used the pain of grief to create attachment
Regina used the pain and suffering caused by Diener’s death to create an organization on behalf of other mothers struggling with the grief of their children: DW Association – A Força Materna do Luto à Luta. “This is my fight today,” he told the reporter.
According to her, the pain of loss caused her everything from the end of personal relationships to financial problems. “Nobody knows what I’m going through,” Regina said. “Nobody knows how sick I am. Nobody knows.”
“Part of me died (when Diener was killed) and part of me died when I found out that this prosecutor had made a successful case of two uniformed killers,” the mother said.