“I told him, ‘Help the baby,’ and he smiled and said, 'He’s good like his dad,'" Rodriguez said. [4][24], The traffickers drove Lopes along a winding back dirt road leading away from the Vila Cruzeiro favela (which is situated in Penha) and into the Complexo do Alemão network of favelas,[4] a distance of about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles)[10] on winding roads through hilly terrain (this also being the same route used by groups of fleeing criminals brandishing assault rifles when military police units and the Brazilian military invaded Vila Cruzeiro during the 2010 Rio de Janeiro security crisis).
On Monday June 3, 2002 at 11:00 am, Gomes was sitting in his office at the police station when he was notified that an attorney from Rede Globo was there to see him. Tim Lopes Father: Started his professional career thanks to his father Tim and Christian were both very young when their father signed them up for youth baseball. Only a few people live like Tim used to live in the favelas. After leaving his office that afternoon at the Rede Globo television studios, where he left his "cell phone, wallet, and dress shirt," Lopes went to the Penha Shopping Mall where he rigged himself with a hidden camera. This action was in response to attacks throughout Rio by the criminal faction headquartered there. [7], Lopes was one of the founders of the Carnaval bloco, "Simpatia é quase amor" of Ipanema, and had served as an official judge of the annual carnival procession at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí. Tim Lopes's journalism colleagues described him as an old-school type reporter who gleaned his stories from researching on the street as opposed to sitting in an air-conditioned office browsing the Internet for ideas. In 2002, the media reported him missing while working undercover on a story in one of Rio's favelas. His first foray into broadcast journalism was for the popular newsmagazine program Fantástico on the Globo network. Lopes's aim was to obtain footage of drugs and weapons, as he had in 2001 in the favela da Grota within the Complexo do Alemão.
Filling in this power vacuum were young drug traffickers, who patrolled the favelas with automatic weapons.
Lopez had previous run-ins with law enforcement, according to his family, and his mother said he was afraid of police. The arrest was widely publicized and applauded in Rio's media. Laura Gonzalez had a dream a few months ago about her son Ramon Timothy Lopez. One officer said, “Left arm broken,” referring to Lopez's injuries, according to the body-camera videos. [50][51], Though a prominent journalist, Tim Lopes only became nationally known after his death in a crime that shocked the country. Elias Maluco and other traffickers then transported Lopes to a nearby hill within the Complexo called Pedra do Sapo (Rock of the Toad). Lopes was placed within several tires, covered in diesel fuel, and set on fire. [65] Just the Complexo itself is policed by 1,200 UPP officers (it was announced in July 2012 that the number would be increased to 1,800).
When he was 8 years old, his parents moved the family to Rio de Janeiro, where they lived in humble circumstances in the Mangueira favela in a three-room shanty. [4] Lopes was accosted by two members of the criminal faction who controlled Vila Cruzeiro and most of the Complexo do Alemão (often just referred to as "o Complexo"), André da Cruz Barbosa and Maurício de Lima Matias. [47] He was recaptured by police in the Rio suburb of Santa Cruz in May 2010. [67], In December 2010, a mass was held to commemorate Lopes in a church in the Complexo called the Igreja Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe. Rodriguez also recalled a time when they took their kids and relatives to Skateland after he came home from work.
[27], When Gomes started investigating in Vila Cruzeiro that Monday, the word on the street was electric, as residents spoke about a man who had been captured and beaten by traffickers. [39] Ratinho had been one of the traffickers featured in the "Big Drug Fair" report from the previous year, which had resulted in a period of police crackdowns. [64] It seemed to the police at the moment that Lopes's fate ended at that location, but through DNA testing they discovered that it was, in fact, not Lopes.
[72] The title of the film is "Histórias de Arcanjo: um documentário sobre Tim Lopes," (Stories of Archangel: a documentary about Tim Lopes);[56][73] Arcanjo being Tim Lopes's first name. She filmed in the Rio favelas of Mangueira and Rocinha during the same time period. March 4, 2016: 2B Tim Lopes assigned to Seattle Mariners. Lopes was tipped off by local residents of the area that traffickers were promoting child prostitution at the bailes funk in Vila Cruzeiro. [10] A consistent theme of Tim Lopes's reporting was to show how low-income citizens living within Rio's favelas could be subjected to terror and powerlessness under the 'law of the traffickers. Gomes was directed to the area and found burned tires, fresh blood, and human remains.
The family held a celebration of his life on Saturday in California, releasing purple balloons into the air. The service was organized by Rio's municipal union for journalists, the Sindicato dos Jornalistas do Município do Rio de Janeiro. Lopes also had a nineteen-year-old son, Bruno, from a previous marriage, with whom he maintained a father-son relationship. "[4], "The reflections about journalism generated by Lopes's killing led to the creation of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji in Portuguese) in December of that year". [23] In a "macabre ritual" of violence,[10] using a samurai or a "ninja"-type sword, Elias Maluco cut off Lopes's hands, arms, and legs while Lopes was still alive.
[20][23], Upon being confronted, Lopes stated that he was a journalist from Rede Globo.
[4] There was also what remained of a burned ninja sword. Mangueira is home to the samba school, Mangueira and is located on a hill near Maracanã football stadium.
[23][27][28] The other traffickers, including André Capeta and Ratinho, also participated in the torture.
[4] Lopes spent the 2017 season with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, hitting .271/.338/.390/.728 with 7 home runs and 50 RBI. In 2011 he began filming a biographical documentary film about the life of his father to show a broader perspective, not just the details of his death. His awareness of drugs and crime plaguing the city, and the lack of social services for youth to deal with these problems, seemed to drain him of energy. Lopes was subsequently beaten at the scene. He spent the 2018 season with the Buffalo Bisons, hitting .277/.325/.364/.689 with 2 home runs and 29 RBI. Both traffickers were part of Elias Maluco's gang. In 2002, the media reported him missing while working undercover on a story in one of Rio's favelas. Gomes wrote that if Globo would have notified the police at midnight on June 2, there was still a chance that Lopes's life could have been saved through police interdiction.[10]. [27][28] There they uncovered a few burned bone fragments of several individuals. [4] The traffickers became suspicious when someone noticed a small light coming from the pack at Lopes's waist, where his camera was concealed, and reported it to one of the armed traffickers. (During a time period after Tim Lopes's death, when journalists would enter favelas housing criminal factions associated with the traffickers who killed Lopes, they would sometimes hear "vai ter mais Tim, vai ter mais Tim!" On November 25, 2010, Rio's special forces battalion (BOPE), supported by other police units, entered Vila Cruzeiro in Penha via Brazilian Marine armored transport to various points within the slum and ultimately took control of the hill and the surrounding area of Penha.
as a warning insinuating that more reporters could be killed.
[59], When a new public high school was built in the Complexo do Alemão, it was named Colégio Tim Lopes.
[10] The report was televised in Brazil on the program Jornal Nacional on August 3, 2001. Tim Lopes's son, Bruno Quintella (who was 19 when his father was killed), completed a university degree in journalism in 2010. In addition to drug selling, in certain favelas, traffickers were sexually exploiting minors from the community at their baile funk,[4] sometimes forcing girls to put on explicit shows by having sex out in the open against a wall at these events. [10] It was later learned that before this night, Lopes had recently filmed in Vila Cruzeiro three different times. '[14] Lopes felt that the government had ceded control of poor neighborhoods to violent drug traffickers. [8], Lopes lived with his wife Alessandra Wagner and her son Diogo. It is called Avenida Tim Lopes.
“He was so proud of himself, that was the biggest accomplishment of his life.”. [18], Days before this night, Lopes had confided to colleagues that he was feeling tired and wanted to take a break from the agitation and violence of the city and find a rural retreat somewhere where he could recuperate. “His death was very sudden and untimely and we’re still grieving.”. On May 25, 2005 he was given a prison sentence of 28½ years.[35]. Police arrested Lopez, 28, in west Phoenix on suspicion of acting erratically and stealing a drink from a convenience store. Tim Lopes. Gonzalez told The Republic her son experienced intense anxiety and had been seeing doctors, but had not received a diagnosis for any mental disorders. [4] An example of this was the series he wrote for the Rio newspaper O Dia in 1994 entitled, "Funk: Som, Alegria, e Terror," (Funk: Sound, Joy, and Terror). [7][10], In 2002 Lopes started working on a story about caminhoneiros (long-distance truck drivers that traverse Brazil) for Globo TV. “He had problems just like everyone does,” said 26-year-old Rosita Lopez, his younger sister.
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