"All of us are Claudia": the legitimation of state violence

Abstract:This text, from the theoretical perspective of Pêcheux's Discourse Analysis, examines some posts published on Marcha das Vadias (The SlutWalk) Facebook pages on the murder of Cláudia da Silva Ferreira after being dragged by a military police vehicle on March 16th, 2014, in Rio de Janeiro. Making use of the notion of discursive event, we clarify how a memory about both black people and the police in Brazil is updated, portraying the latter as guilty for the murder of black people and the former as victims of a segregationist society. Also, we elucidate how there is, in the posts, an attempt to break away from the violence produced and legitimized by the state.