If you're saying that the original article was off topic and irrelevant when it quoted the number of 4500 women murdered in Brazil each year, then I completely agree.
But since that was in the news article...
Pay me no mind. I didn't read the whole article. As soon as I saw this was "gaming rage", my eyes sort of glassed over, I stopped reading, and drifted off to pondering the insane and bloody riots a simple soccer game can cause, south of the border. (In England too).
I suppose they could have "swatted" on another, but that would have involved calling rival cartels.
As far as inserting how many men and women are murdered in Brazil a year, into the article that was just page filler. Sort of like Chuck Dickens was intensely verbose, since I believe, he was paid by the word. (**)
BTW, you didn't pick up on the "pot calling the kettle black" aspect.

Hell, I practically invented off topic posting...
(**) I just checked, that's a myth. He wasn't paid by the word, he was just long winded