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A mugging in Brazil escalates when an alert good Samaritan opens fire on the bad guys and they escape hiding behind a hostage human shield they eventually release.

Of course, everything changes when the "scary armed man" is a federal police officer! The shotgun-toting cop literally stumbles into a Brazilian convenience store and blasts away at the floor between cigarettes. Although he's been identified, it's not clear what kind of disciplinary measures our "bad cop" will get for his shocking behavior.

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