This thesis seeks to reconstruct and contextualize the experiences of a mother [Pilar] and her son [Kevin] from the popular classes in relation to justice and the Colombian state, in the context of a situation of police violence and false accusations in a judicial process. In this way, with a rigorous ethnographic work and the decision to rely on the debates of legal anthropology and anthropology of the state, I analyze how the experiences of the bureaucratic processes were deeply shaped by the trajectory and social position of Kevin and Pilar. In particular, I reflect on how the lack of certain resources - economic, but also social, cultural and scholastic - had consequences for Kevin and his mother, from the initial moment of police violence, during the long bureaucratic itinerary they followed until the end of the process and even after it was over.From a comprehensive, reflexive and critical point of view, I propose to understand, partially, the functioning of justice and the Colombian state from the experiences of its users and the effects they have on their lives. Finally, I find that the Colombian legal system has enormous structural problems that affect the lives of the most vulnerable, and becomes an apparatus that reproduces the inequality it seeks to eradicate
