Is the USA going to be stuck picking up the cost again? If a country doesn't have a strong security infrastructure, why is that country chosen? Any country will do and the Olympic Committee simply understands when it becomes obvious the country is in over it's head, the USA will come to the rescue? This is the second time.
July 5, 2016
By Sebastian Smith and Madeleine Prade
By Sebastian Smith and Madeleine Prade
It wasn't the welcome (click here) those arriving at Rio de Janeiro's main airport would have hoped for - police holding up banners that read "Welcome to Hell".
The demonstration today - a month before the Olympics open- was the latest by Brazilian police protesting over unpaid salaries and a string of recent police deaths.
More than 100 emergency services workers, including firefighters, took part in the protest in the arrival hall at Galeao International Airport, which will be a key entry point for the expected half-million tourists to the Games starting on August 5.
Officers held up a banner reading: "Welcome to hell. Police and firefighters don't get paid, whoever comes to Rio de Janeiro will not be safe."
Mannequins dressed in uniform were laid out on the floor to represent the more than 50 officers killed in Rio de Janeiro so far this year. A female officer with fake blood smeared on her face and hands clutched a mannequin dressed in a T-shirt reading "SOS policia"....
