Dehumanizing the Victim: The Rhetoric of Police Violence in Brazil

• In Event: Look at What You Made Me Do: How Police Shape Politics

Brief Overview

I argue that political leaders in Brazilian states deliberately dehumanize communities affected by police brutality through press releases, aiming to delegitimize their suffering and justify violent militarized policing to the public.

Author

• J. Winston Winston Ardoin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill