In this paper, I analyse cases of police violence in Rio de Janeiro's favelas using a theoretical-methodological framework that combines intersectional feminist studies with mobile methods, particularly considering the methodological framework suggested by Freire-Medeiros, Telles and Allis (2018). This is an analytical approach to reflecting on forced micro-displacements, in which people are forced by armed state agents into police vehicles or are placed - already dead - in those same vehicles. Whether these people are alive or dead, it is a priority in this analysis to consider the social markers of race, gender, sexuality and class/territory in all the situations addressed, bearing in mind Hill Collins' approach to “lethal intersections”. The material on which this proposal is based stems from two consecutive research projects on the control of bodies and territories: one carried out between 2015 and 2018 at CIDADES - UERJ's Urban Research Centre, and the other between 2018 and 2021 at the Pagu/UNICAMP Gender Studies Centre. The cases selected for the development of this paper involve black victims, of different genders and sexual orientations, all living in favelas, and suggest the formation of an urban circuit of state terror. The analysis of this circuit reveals how gender power asymmetries mark militarised actions by armed state agents in favelas and urban peripheries. In dialogue with Ochy Curiel's (2013) idea of a ‘heterosexual nation’, in this analysis, therefore, racism, sexism, lgbtphobia and misogyny appear intertwined in the updating of government practices to control bodies, populations and territories, making it possible to see this ‘warlike binarism’, which updates the double self/other; ally/enemy, producing a kind of fusion between self and ally that practically allocates everything and everyone who is not ‘its image and likeness’ as an enemy-other.