Watch Brazilian police attack anti-impeachment protesters

Riot police detain a man during an anti-impeachment protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday. (Fernando Donasci/Reuters).

RIO DE JANEIRO — A peaceful rally in Sao Paulo on Sunday afternoon to protest the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and call for elections ended in violence hours later amid widespread accusations of police brutality.

Cellphone videos of panicked protesters fleeing clouds of tear gas and a BBC Brasil reporter apparently being knocked over by riot police have raised concerns that further demonstrations, including those planned for Wednesday — Brazil's independence day — may be marred by violence.

Many fear a repeat of 2013, when violent protests roiled Brazil and masked youths fought pitched battles with police in Rio and Sao Paulo for months afterward.

Rousseff was ousted from office by the Brazilian Senate on Thursday after an impeachment trial that she and her leftist supporters labeled a parliamentary coup. She was replaced by former vice president Michel Temer. He first took over as interim president when Rousseff was suspended in May and has been trying to introduce austerity measures and a more conservative agenda.

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