First he got his arms and head through.
The cameras at the police station in Florianópolis, in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, recorded every second. The man had been detained on domestic violence charges and was locked in a cell whose only opening was the small hatch through which food trays are passed. Without thinking too much, the prisoner put his head through, turned his shoulders, and wriggled again and again until he got his entire torso to the other side. Then he lifted his legs, one by one, and crawled until he was free.
He didn’t run off immediately. First he picked up his shoes, with a calmness that contrasted with the feat, and only then left the room. The scene looks like something out of a movie, but it happened at a real police station, where officers had an accused partner abuser in their custody.
The police launched a search and managed to recapture him. Officers secured the cell and ordered modifications to improve its security. How many things had to go wrong for someone accused of domestic violence to walk out of a police station?