"This is pamphlet promoting a peaceful demonstration was handed out by UPP officers (the favela-specific ""Pacifying Police Unit"") at the first protest march organized by Rocinha residents. It reads ""Without Violence. Peace. Help us protect you; stay away from those who insist on vandalizing a peaceful protest."" This was the only instance I saw the pamphlet and it was the only protest in which I saw police officers engaging 'peacefully' with protestors before the march began (although in São Paulo they have designated a special officer to act as negotiator between protestors and the police). The chant SEM VIOLENCIA was often heard during the first month of protests. Eventually more radical factions within a given march would chant back ""SEM MORALISMO"" (without moralism). When no police are present, one often hears the Black Bloc chant, ""what a coincidence; when there's no police, there's no violence."""
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