Marielle franco and the media’s racism

In this article we analyze the discursive forms present in the mediatic discourse of an international periodical about the coverage of the murder of Councilwoman Marielle Franco and the relations between police violence and racism, impregnated in the debate about the coverage of the event. The objective is to explore the current scenario using the qualitative methodology of discourse analysis by the Dutch sociologist Van Dijk and how this discussion portrays the black man and the police, through the analysis of an exclusive report of the online version of the Washington Post, March 23, 2018, with the title: After Marielle Franco's murder, I'm not hopeful for black Brazilians. The results obtained in this study indicate that the negative discourse directed at black individuals was a priority in the journalistic coverage evaluated and corroborates for the conception of potentially segregating ideas. Characterizing itself as a new modality of racism.