Sure the police hurt people. Sometimes, in an extreme situtation, they'll get hopped up and go overboard. The Rodney King case is an example of that. Not that Rodney King didn't pretty much deserve what he got. He was a criminal doing bad stuff. The cops got out of hand.

So, using that case as a baseline of police abuse... this Brazilian is just whacked. If he was mistreated it's because he deserved to be... but we don't lock people away for days on end and deprive them of water and such. I think maybe something inconvenient happened to this guy, like he was questioned or detained. But not all the silliness of which he writes.