Big sunglasses,Passion's Peak (2002) camouflage clothing, and a few armed police -- is this what passes for cool?

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Madonna was in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday for a wedding held at the statue of Christ the Redeemer. While there she took this picture in a favela.

For reference she was heading to a giant sculpture of the moon.

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People on Twitter had a fair amount of criticism for the photo. It turns out that posing with armed police in an area where the shooting of civilians is endemic is a bad idea. Who could have predicted it?

Mashable has reached out to Madonna's representatives for comment.

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