Cops throw a horse in jail for kicking a car in Brazil
By Julio Severo
Brazilian police threw a horse in
jail for kicking a car.
The horse was detained from Sunday
evening until Monday afternoon to compensate the angry car owner who demanded
the horse should be locked up until she had received payment for the damage.
A video of the dejected animal
incarcerated in a military police prison cell has generated both amusement and
anger on social media. Worse: Brazil is being mocked in the international
media.
There is an urgent need for the
police to incarcerate multitudes of real criminals in Brazil, especially
corrupt politicians. But this need has never, in centuries of Brazil’s
existence, been fulfilled. Brazil has been filled of corrupt politicians since
its discovery in 1500.
Brazil is the largest Catholic
nation in the world where impunity is the true law of the land. Impunity if the
criminal is rich or prominent. But there is law for others, including an
innocent horse.
“Nossa Senhora Aparecida,” the city
where the horse was incarcerated, is named after a black statue that Brazilian Catholics
interpret as Mary, the mother of Jesus. The black statue is officially the
Catholic patroness of Brazil and Brazilian Catholics, who love syncretism, pray
to Aparecida, which has a massive sanctuary in Brazil.
If Brazilians can make the
foolishness to pray to a black statue, why cannot they make the foolishness to
incarcerate an innocent horse?
As
Jack Palance used to say in his Ripley’s TV show, “Believe it or not!”
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