The data indicates that the public reaction to the security crisis in Rio de Janeiro was driven by outrage at the scale of the violence, and not by attempts to link the episode to the federal government. The predominance of vocabulary related to conflict and violence, which accounted for 41% of mentions on the 28th and 44% on the 29th, shows that the debate was structured around the human tragedy and the social impact of the operation. Mentions of the state government, directly linked to the conduct of the operation, occupied second place in volume, while references to the federal government and Lula remained in the minority, varying from 25% to 23% of the total. The stable and decreasing proportion of these mentions suggests that, although there was an attempt to politicize the episode, the repercussion was centered on the outrage over the number of deaths and the perception of a lack of control over public security in the state, and not on holding the federal government responsible.