Brazilian shopping malls requesting help from government to contain 'weekend flash mobs'

Tuesday, January 21st 2014 - 13:37 UTC

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Brazilian retailers said they were seeking support from President Dilma Rousseff after several shopping malls were closed to stop weekend flash mobs. Scores of youths, brought together via social media, gathered at upscale malls in several major cities, including Rio and business hub Sao Paulo. Read full article

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ChrisR
No racism in Brazil I see?

As long as you are not black it seems.
Jan 21st, 2014 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Stevie
Being a symbol for the greed of this time, my guess is that the shopping centers will endure the wrath of an entire generation in times to come...
Jan 21st, 2014 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Britworker
Well when you blow the bank in world cups and Olympic Games, when in reality you need decent hospitals, infrastructure and public services, they should expect a bit of disorder.
Jan 21st, 2014 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Math
It amazes me how “baderneiros” are turned into reviolutionaries or vitimized by our media and political class. This has nothing to with racism and elitism. Or maybe you think only rich white enters Aricanduva, only rich whites enters Lapa, only rich white enters Ipiranga... Quite the opposite, the low class and blacks go to those places and they behave well. Only the minority - the flah mob minority - is doing all the fuzz. I think they have to be stoped if they want to play their music out loud in common places or want to be unpolite to the consumers. Pickpocketing the case of Leblon is shamefull and coward.
Jan 22nd, 2014 - 04:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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