Gangs and cops shoot it out in Rio

Time magazine has this story today about a raging gang war going on in Rio de Janeiro. Over 1,000 cops armed with assault weapons got into a gun battle with gangsters in a one of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, killing 19 suspected crooks, the story says. With the raid, the cops officially break their non-aggression pact with the gangs, after years of giving the traffickers free reign to live in the neighborhoods as long as they don't cause any trouble. The gangs apparently weren't holding up their end of the bargain. time