Feliciano, que també és diputat federal i president de la Comissió de Drets Humans i Minories de la Cambra de Diputats del Brasil, va aturar l'espectacle que feia a l'esdeveniment per demanar a la guàrdia municipal i als policies militars presents que arrestaren les dues joves.
Feliciano, who is also a congressman and president of the House Commission for Human Rights and Minorities , stopped his presentation during the gospel festival, which bills itself as an "evangelical social-cultural week", to request the municipal guards and military police officers present arrest the two young women.