“Abordamos de Forma Indiscriminada”: Análise dos Repertórios de Policiamento Acionados no Caso Centro Cultural São Paulo

• Main Author: Zoccal, Mariana Pinto [UNESP]
• Publication Date: 2025
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Download full: http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2021v26n3p502; https://hdl.handle.net/11449/298939
• topic: policing repertoires; demonstrations; criminalization of protest; repertórios de policiamento; manifestações; criminalização do protesto

This article aims to analyze police repertoires triggered in the arrest of demonstrators in the Centro Cultural São Paulo Case, which occurred in September 2016. We explore issues such as: the use of dark clothes, masks, vinegars and first aid kits as “signs” of authorship and materiality of conduits; the infiltration of Army agents into activism groups; and the attribution of legitimacy to the protests, depending on elements such as social representations, repertoires, ideologies and agendas defended by the demonstrators. The research adopts a case study strategy and qualitative methodology, with analysis of court documents and journalistic news related to the case. In summary, it is concluded that the repertoire mobilized in the police approach presented characteristics of the “strategic incapacitation” model, and that there was an articulation between different institutions for the neutralization of protesters and the subsequent processing of the case in the criminal justice system.