Uprisings in France over racist police brutality…
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I was surprised this thread wasnt made b4
Was either gonna make it mys3lf or at mon frere @lemzolamaximus
Them ? crackas are outta there mind and this shows wherever ? and crackas co exist theyll find a way to ? 2ith us.
Glad french people are burning that ? down. -
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Shout out to yall "Pray for paris" facebook ?
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Get it how you can.
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French protest are militant when their farmers went on strike they went to war against the police.
Regarding this its barbaric and they all need to be charged. -
13 or 17 district?
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blue_london wrote: »French protest are militant when their farmers went on strike they went to war against the police.
Regarding this its barbaric and they all need to be charged.
Who are you talking about? The protesters or the cops who rapped dude? -
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People all over the world are tired of white folks and their ?
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? France!
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KingFreeman wrote: »blue_london wrote: »French protest are militant when their farmers went on strike they went to war against the police.
Regarding this its barbaric and they all need to be charged.
Who are you talking about? The protesters or the cops who rapped dude?
The police of course. I believe only one has been charged that's not good enough.. -
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stringer bell wrote: »
Smmfh. I'm trying hard to stay off these watch lists. -
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http://www.france24.com/en/20170212-paris-suburbs-violence-police-? -theo-adama-blacks-franceParis suburbs rage over police assault: ‘I’m disgusted by my country’
In what has become an all too familiar pattern, the mostly peaceful rally in the northeastern suburb of Bobigny descended into violence after small groups of protesters hurled projectiles at riot police and set several vehicles on fire.
Police responded by firing tear gas and arresting 37 people. Several bus stops and shop windows were smashed, and a little girl was rescued from a burning car by a 16-year-old demonstrator, who was heralded as a hero on social media.
The chaos was precisely what student Issa Bidard, one of the rally’s organisers, had been hoping to avoid.
Shortly before the outbreak of violence, Bidard had urged the crowd to show French authorities “our real face, that we are educated, intelligent – that we are not savages.”
His plea followed several nights of clashes in the French capital’s restive outskirts, triggered by a brutal encounter between police and a 22-year-old black man known as Théo, who was beaten and anally penetrated with a police truncheon.
The youth worker suffered such severe injuries to his ? that he needed major emergency surgery and remains in hospital. Three officers involved in the incident have been charged with aggravated assault, and a fourth one is being investigated for ? .
Toxic relations
On Saturday, the demonstrators held placards reading “police rapes” and “police kills innocents” as they rallied outside the Bobigny courthouse. The crowd chanted “justice for Théo” and “justice for Adama”, referring to 24-year-old black man Adama Traore, who died while in police custody in another Paris suburb last July.
Traore’s death, and the perceived miscarriage of justice that followed when police were initially cleared of wrongdoing, reignited the simmering anger in France’s most deprived suburbs, where relations between police and youths of immigrant origin have long been toxic.
It stoked fears of a repeat of the huge riots that followed the death in 2005 of teenagers Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore (no relation to Adama), who were electrocuted in a power station while hiding from police in the suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
Many in Bobigny feared Théo’s ordeal would also go unpunished, their suspicions heightened by a police investigation that suggested the 10-centimetre-deep ? had been "accidental".
“Theo’s case is just the tip of the iceberg,” said a protester in his 30s, who declined to give his name. “Fortunately this time the victim is alive. There is video footage and medical evidence. He was lynched.”
The protester added: “We want a fair justice system, that isn’t blind [to our plight]. We want police chiefs to recognise what happened and punish the officer.”
Youssef Sayah, a father of two from Théo’s hometown of Aulnay-sous-Bois, neighbouring Bobigny, said he attended the rally to “support Theo and all those who suffer from injustice”.
Sayah chairs a “citizen council” in his neighbourhood, which aims to build bridges between the authorities and the local population, “so that people who never get a hearing can get their message across.”
He said: “What police did [to Théo] is not right. We don’t live in lawless areas, but in areas where we are not equal before the law.”
‘What kind of justice is this?’
Jamila, who came from nearby Saint-Denis to attend the rally, said she was spurred into action after her severely disabled son was stopped by police in the hall of their building. “I found him in a state of total panic,” she recalled, offering her “unconditional support” to the protest movement against police brutality.
Earlier this week, Jamila attended a court hearing for youths who were arrested in Aulnay-sous-Bois during the violent protests that followed Théo’s brutal arrest. She suggested the swift sentencing to jail of two youths who were found guilty of ambushing police was evidence of double standards.
“Ministers steal millions and nothing happens, but these youths, some of whom are studying in university, are sent to jail – this is not normal,” she fumed. “Police chiefs want results, they put pressure on officers, and we suffer the consequences,” she added.
Like Jamila, none of the protesters who spoke to FRANCE 24 said they expected much from France’s presidential election, which is only ten weeks away. But the name of one candidate – embattled conservative nominee François Fillon – came up more than once.
“Fillon steals a million euros from us taxpayers and he is free, whereas kids from our estates are sentenced for much less – what kind of justice is this?” lamented Fatima, from nearby La Courneuve, referring to the festering scandal involving allegations Fillon’s wife and children were paid generous salaries from public funds in return for doing very little work.
“I’m disgusted by my country,” she added. “Nobody does anything to change this.” -
Where's Le pigs mugshot?
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-violence-continues-after-black-man-allegedly-sodomized-by-police/PARIS -- France’s interior minister is condemning unrest in a Paris suburb that led to at least 11 new arrests overnight, and calling for calm after a week of violence linked to the alleged ? of a young black man by police.
Bruno Le Roux urged angry youths to trust authorities to investigate the ? accusations. “I call for responsibility, serenity, trust in the justice system,” he told reporters in televised remarks Monday.
Regional police said in a statement that 11 people including eight minors were arrested in Argenteuil, northwest of Paris, after youths set vehicles and garbage cans on fire.
http://www.politico.eu/article/theo-paris-riots-over-police-? -hijack-french-campaign-racism-aulnay-sous-bois/But Le Pen, who is seen reaching the final round of the election but being knocked out by either Fillon or Macron, took the opposite tack. “My principle is to first support the forces of police and gendarmes, except if their guilt is demonstrated,” she told LCI TV.
“We don’t know what the context of this arrest was, so going off images like this is fairly dangerous,” she added. -
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-13/le-pen-calls-protesters-? -after-paris-cop-charged-with-?Le Pen Calls Rioters ? as Violence Roils Paris Suburbs
- National Front leader fans backlash against riots near capital
- Paris ghetto violence erupts after police attack on young man
Marine Le Pen, the anti-immigration candidate in France’s election, unleashed a social-media campaign attacking minority communities after successive nights of violence in the ghettos around Paris.
Some satellite towns around the capital have seen violent protests almost every night since Feb. 5 when four policemen were charged with attacking a young black man in Aulnay-sous-Bois, close to where riots erupted 12 years ago. Police have made multiple arrests, including last night, Agence France-Presse reported.
“Security forces have been the target of gangs of ? that nothing seems to be able to stop anymore, and certainly not the courts in a overall context of decadence,” Le Pen said in a statement.
With fears about immigration and public security providing the backdrop to the French election campaign, Le Pen started an online petition to support the police as her aides and supporters used social media to condemn the protesters and heap blame for problem on the Socialist government.
“Look at this ? !” Le Pen’s closest adviser Florian Philippot wrote on Twitter Sunday, repeating the attack in television appearances the following day. “If they’re foreigners, immediate deportation -- or prison for life.”
His comments have been quoted and republished by pro-Le Pen accounts including WithMarine, MLP Presidente 2017 and by supporters using hashtags like #JeSoutiensLaPolice -- meaning ‘I back the police.’
“This is their stock in trade,” said Richard Ferrand, a Socialist lawmaker who’s secretary general of independent front-runner Emmanuel Macron’s campaign. “They use crimes, drama and violence to spread fear and draw the French towards them.”
‘An Excuse’
Three officers were charged with battery and a fourth with ? over the attack on a 22-year-old man identified as Theo after a spot check on Feb. 2.
“Support for Theo is an excuse to attack the cops,” Marion Marechal Le Pen, a National Front lawmaker and the candidate’s niece, said. “It’s a pretext to throw opprobrium on an entire profession.”
While polls indicate Le Pen is likely to win the most votes in the first round of France’s presidential election on April 23, they also project that she will lose the run-off two weeks later by at least 12 percentage points.
Peaceful marches by several hundred residents in the past days in Aulnay-sous-Bois and Bobigny north-east of Paris were followed by some youngsters vandalizing restaurants and setting garbage cans and cars on fire. Violence erupted yesterday in other suburban towns including Argenteuil and Drancy.
“Once more she’s throwing oil on the fire,” Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon said in a statement Monday. “Once more she’s creating disorder, she’s encouraging violence with her hate speech.” Hamon is running fourth in the polls.
Grainy Footage
While Le Pen praised the police for its work to protect France in a statement Monday, Republican candidate Francois Fillon blamed the Socialist government for allowing the demonstrations in a Feb 12 statement.
The victim, whose first name is Theo, said in a video recorded by his lawyer and shown widely on French media that he had cooperated with the police before they started insulting and attacking him. Grainy scenes filmed by witnesses show the police surrounding and hitting the man as he falls to the ground.
Aulnay-sous-Bois is just 6 kilometers away from Clichy-sous-Bois, where the death of two boys fleeing a police spot check in October 2005 led to several weeks of rioting in troubled neighborhoods across France and a state of emergency being imposed in parts of the country. - National Front leader fans backlash against riots near capital
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