Overview

• Civil investigators said the BOPE officer acted under putative self‑defense, a mistaken yet subjectively believed threat scenario.
• The inquiry cited examinations and body‑worn camera images to state there was no excess or illegality in the officer’s conduct.
• Prosecutors received the file and will assess it alongside a criminal inquiry already opened by the office and the Military Police probe.
• Herus Guimarães Mendes, 23, was shot during a festa junina at Morro do Santo Amaro; five others were wounded, with no trafficking ties reported by police.
• A BOPE sergeant previously said he alone fired in response to gunmen, as a separate military inquiry has indicted two officers and earlier command removals followed the operation.