The Lady Gaga concert bomb plot was targeting LGBTQ+ people

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Brazilian police say that two people arrested in connection with a planned attack on Lady Gaga’s massive concert in Rio de Janeiro were specifically targeting the LGBTQ+ community.

Ahead of the free May 3 show, which drew more than two million people to Rio’s Copacabana Beach, police reportedly arrested two people in connection with the plot, including a man identified as the group’s leader. Police said the two suspects were part of an online hate group that promoted “the dissemination of hate crimes, self-harm, pedophilia, and violent content” among young people, according to CNN.

“They were clearly saying that they were planning an attack at Lady Gaga’s concert motivated by sexual orientation,” Rio police secretary Felipe Cury said at a Sunday press conference, according to the Associated Press.

The two suspects reportedly posed as…

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