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Criminals set fire to cars to delay police, tie hostages to vehicles after robbing 2 banks

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    -61% Negative

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47% : The criminals strategically burned vehicles to slow down police officers and reportedly watched the progress of law enforcement responding to the robberies using a drone, the AP reported.
46% : They also took hostages whilst robbing the two bank branches, some of whom they positioned on top of or inside their cars to dissuade law enforcement from firing gunshots while they attempted to escape.
40% : Criminals who robbed two banks in Araçatuba, a Brazilian city northwest of São Paulo state, early Monday set fire to cars and tied civilian hostages to vehicles to deter law enforcement from pursuing them, the Associated Press reported.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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