Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro posted a video on Twitter Tuesday of a man urinating on another man at a São Paulo street party
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks with press after meeting with Venezuelan opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido at Palace Itamaraty on Feb. 28, 2019, in Brasília, Brazil.Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has sparked shock and outrage by tweeting a video showing one man urinating on another during his country’s massive annual street carnival.
“I do not feel comfortable showing this, but … this is what many of the street parties in Brazil’s carnival have turned into,” Bolsonaro tweeted about the video, which local media said was filmed at a São Paulo street party, or bloco.A former army captain, Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 as the head of a right-wing government after years of stirring controversy with homophobic, misogynistic and racist comments.
Twitter said in a statement that any violations of its content rules were “subject to appropriate measures,” but declined to say whether the post constituted a violation. In a statement, Brazil’s presidency defended Bolsonaro for posting a video that it said scandalized the whole country.
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