BABIY QUERINO: PRISÃO, RACISMO E (IN)JUSTIÇA

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the events that led the young Bárbara Querino de Oliveira to be arrested, prosecuted and convicted. Barbara or Babiy, as she is known, was accused of criminal association and of two robberies in 2017, in the city of São Paulo - SP. The pillar of the accusation in both cases rested on a photographic recognition carried out at the police station approximately two months after the facts, but only two days after postings were made on social networks and messaging apps accusing her of being a criminal in the region and instigating victims to go to the police station to recognize her. From the assessment of three police events, it is possible to see numerous inconsistencies in the police investigations that resulted in Bárbara's imprisonment. Various inconsistencies during the criminal process are also examined, but the present study focuses on three problematic issues: the photographic recognition, the order of preventive detention and Barbara’s conviction. The detailed examination of these elements presents the revelation of the true reasons considered by the judges to condemn Barbara, in order to see the gears of a selective and racist penal system. Finally, the ideology of white supremacy is related to the social reality of Brazil, which results in the mass incarceration of thousands of black people, explaining the real reasons for Barbara's condemnation.