Come up with the pizza, delivery guy (or I’ll kill you) – 03/08/2024 – Cozinha Bruta

Nilton Ramon de Oliveira, an iFood delivery man, was shot because, according to reports, he refused to take the food up to the apartment of the attacker, a military police officer.

The case happened on the 4th, in the suburbs of Rio. The victim is hospitalized (the bullet ruptured the femoral vein), and his family says they are intimidated by police officers.

This is a tragedy with multiple layers of misfortune.

At the municipal level, it is the portrait of a city that struggles to not let go of the social relations that were established in the 19th century, when Rio was the capital of a slave empire.

I spent six months in Rio in 2019, I don’t know if you can say I lived there, but I wasn’t a tourist either. I lived in an apartment and did resident things, like ordering food through iFood.

The first time I called for a pizza, I was surprised when the delivery man rang the doorbell without even a warning over the intercom. I narrated my surprise to friends from Rio, who were surprised by the fact that I was surprised.

In São Paulo, at least in the neighborhoods where I lived, this thing about delivery people coming up was very short-lived.

Soon after inventing the pizza dial – no other food was delivered, and the term “delivery” was adopted decades later –, condominiums began to require residents to pick up their order at the street gate.

The care, evidently, had nothing to do with the well-being of the delivery worker.

It was just a measure to prevent possible criminals from breaking into the building. There’s a concern that the locals don’t have.

You can die from a stray bullet sleeping in your bed, but there seems to be a silent agreement with the bandits. Security in buildings in the south zone is precarious and sloppy, yet there are no home robberies.

Food always went up by elevator in Rio, until iFood told everyone to finish their orders on the sidewalk. It led to angry attacks from the privileged who lost a petty privilege.

In Barra da Tijuca, YouTuber Rica Perrone climbed into the clogs because, in her opinion, she works with something more important than transporting food and could not get down under any circumstances.

Come on, it’s not just in Rio. We’re in the country of “do you know who you’re talking to?”

In Brasília, an engineer showed up, said he was a judge and, with his finger raised, threatened to “fuck with” the life of the biker who was asking for a code to complete the order.

Rica admitted to throwing the food at the delivery man. Corporal Roy, from Vila Valqueire, in Rio, threw popcorn at the insolent Nilton Ramon, who had the nerve not to be subservient to him.

It seems too extreme even for a Rio police officer who makes a living from mocking dark-skinned people.

It seems that the savagery of social media, in which differing opinions lead to insults and threats, is escaping into the real world.

It seems that, in the material world, a revolver bullet is made of lead and can kill a person, but who cares?

Person? No, just the abused kid who didn’t want to take the elevator and still filmed everything with his cell phone.

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