This study aims to investigate the relationship between the identities of the protesters of the Jornadas de Junho in Rio de Janeiro claim for themselves and episodes of police violence that occurred during the protests. Such episodes began after the increase of the transport levy. With the intense repression of the police, the protests have gained significant popular support and the claims became diversified. We understand these protests as part of the movements that have spread across the world since 2011, taking the crisis of representation as an important motivation to indignation (Castells, 2013) This study aligns itself with the Narrative Analysis (Bastos 2005; Bastos and Biar 2015) and interpretative qualitative research methodology (Denzin and Lincoln, 2000), with a autoethnography dimension (Reed-Danahay, 2001). The data were generated from in-depth interviews with two protesters present in the occupation of public spaces in the period. Starting from the labovian model we identified the narratives and the elements that protesters made relevant in their assessments about characters and narrated actions. Conceiving the narrative as a way of organizing the experience (Bruner, 1973), the analysis was guided by social constructionist view of discourse and identities (Moita Lopes, 2003). In the analysis, we noticed that protesters construct their identities starting from the meaning attached by then to the police violence in the narratives. In the process, claim identities that show then in a favorable light. We conceive this violence as moral shock (Jasper, 1997) which produced outrage beyond the tariff increase and took more individuals, including our respondents to participate in the protests of June.