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After his death, several videos surfaced showing the moment of the crime. They were recorded by fans who were in the crowd of the concert and they spread like rapidfire all over YouTube and Facebook.There have been over 4 million views of his death on YouTube already, and judging by the comments a lot of the viewers are celebrating it. Poor black people in Brazil traditionally make baile funk. So there are many who ignorantly view the music as vulgar and consider a death like Daleste's as an inevitable aspect of the subculture. To them, Daleste’s murder just means there is “one less” troublemaker out on the streets. Even the president of the Association of families and friends of São Paulo State Police Officers set off some online fireworks to celebrate.Even worse, there’s a first-person shooter game simulating Daleste’s death. In the game’s promotional video, which is a modified version of Doom, you can see which cultures and races its creators want to wipe off the face of the Earth. There are references to Globo TV network, the social welfare program called Bolsa Família, Regina Casé (who hosts a popular multiculturalist show called Esquenta), baile funk’s debauched singer Tati-Quebra Barraco, and the country’s Workers Party. All of these elements are unpopular among the traditional white upper class of Brazil. As the video wraps up, the soundtrack is a battle cry by BOPE, a special forces unit of Rio’s military police. Some of the text reads: “Thank God now he’s burning in hell, sitting and spinning on Satan’s blazing cock…”
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