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Policing has long been theoretically linked to the power of the state, but the relationship between police and state has more often been assumed than explored. This article contributes to an emerging anthropology of police that gives insight into how state power is enacted through particular processes or events. It focuses on an event of police accountability: the trial of Philip Brailsford for the on-duty shooting of Daniel Shaver. Through an analysis of trial transcripts, I argue that Brailsford's defense reframed both victim and officer to suggest that Brailsford was a 'reasonable officer' who was subject to state power, and that Shaver was legitimately subject to police violence as a 'suspect'.

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