The present study offers a reflection on how the racial violence perpetrated by the State, based on the scope of legitimate defense, blurs the limits between the democratic state and the state of exception and, as a consequence, produces a victim-body, killable due to its black territorial alterity. In dialogue with Achille Mbembe and other theoretical references that address anti-racist violence as colonial device, the chapter maintains that the legitimate defense used by the Brazilian police to justify the murders of civilians is not only a legal institute, provided for by law, but also the foundation of a mobilizing discourse of the policy of extermination of the black body. In other words, it is a strategy of political management of death, just as the discourse of the myth of racial democracy had the role of silencing the racial problem in the face of white supremacy. A careful approach to the Brazilian reality equals saying that it is a continuation of the “genocide of the Brazilian black people”, as Abdias Nascimento points out, engendered by the legal-political system that legitimizes institutional violence in the name of the self-preservation of the State and its order. To this end, a dialogue is established with the black feminist thought of Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sueli Carneiro—in addition to theorists such as Charles W. Mills and Abdias do Nascimento—for an interpretation of the anti-black war as a normative basis for the right to kill the racialized subject as an enemy.