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Craig Jones Has Responded to More BJJ Abuse Cases This Year Than Every Governing Body Combined

Craig Jones Has Responded to More BJJ Abuse Cases This Year Than Every Governing Body Combined

Craig Jones holds no official position in this sport. He runs an event that lost $800,000.
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Active Police Investigator Melqui Galvao Allegedly Used His Badge To Block Misconduct Complaints For Years. A 13-Minute Voice Memo Did Not Care.

Active Police Investigator Melqui Galvao Allegedly Used His Badge To Block Misconduct Complaints For Years. A 13-Minute Voice Memo Did Not Care.

Melqui Galvao wasn't coaching as a private citizen. He was an active civil police investigator in the state of Amazonas.
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Melqui Galvão: How A Tenured Police Instructor Allegedly Abused Three Students — One Just 12 — While His Federation Stayed Silent

Melqui Galvão: How A Tenured Police Instructor Allegedly Abused Three Students — One Just 12 — While His Federation Stayed Silent

The headline detail that no story about Melqui Galvão could seem to top was almost absurd in its specificity: the man was on the Amazonas state payroll as a sworn Civil Police investigator with a sub-specialty in teaching other officers personal-defense techniques. That alone would have been darkly
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IBJJF And CBJJ Permanently Ban Melqui Galvão After His Arrest On Charges Involving Minors

IBJJF And CBJJ Permanently Ban Melqui Galvão After His Arrest On Charges Involving Minors

On Tuesday, the IBJJF and CBJJ issued a joint statement permanently banning Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach Melquisedeque "Melqui" Galvão from both organizations and from every event they sanction. The statement called his alleged conduct "unacceptable" and a violation of "the most fundamental ethical pri
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