“We will kill them”: the message of the Florida sheriff and the violence of the capitalist state

Sheriff Wayne Ivey of Brevard County, Florida, made clear the brutality of the capitalist state by threatening to kill protesters who dare to challenge the imposed order. His statement is not an isolated excess, but the reflection of a state apparatus that, under Trump’s rule, targets the working class and immigrants with raids, deportations, and political assassinations. This article exposes how violence does not begin in the streets, but in the halls of power, and calls for the organization of the working class in the face of repression.