The episodes of police violence are not uncommon on black majority neighborhoods in the outskirts of Lisbon. This violence affects particularly the daily life of the youth from this places, and affects not only their world view, as also expresses in their artistic manifestations: rap music, graffiti works, etc. In February 2015, a group of youth from Cova da Moura suffered police brutality. This incidence was highlighted in the national and international press and lead to Cova da Moura inhabitants to organize a demonstration against police violence and racism, which had the solidarity of other neighborhoods and other sectors of civil society. In my ethnographic field work I followed this episodes, from the detentions to the demonstrations of solidarity for their release. I also conducted interviews and take part in meetings and discussions. From the perspective of this police violence episode, I intend to analyze the phenomena of racism and criminalization of poverty, in order to feed the sociological debate on segregation and marginalized people management. According to it, I will discuss the stigmatization processes and social control practices which the afroeuropean’s youth from the outskirts neighborhoods are object by the state institutions and the media.

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racism,violence,segregation,blackness,outskirts,Lisbon