Protests in France following a police shooting of a teenager

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same usual riots. Everything will go back to “normal” in a few days. The French people need their vacations.

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Same old same old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:France needs more immigration, the melting pot is so good for French culture .

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1674898924937650176?s=46&t=SgrQkBdvvOiR3Ut0ZqcBcA

Reminds me of 2020. Just disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:France needs more immigration, the melting pot is so good for French culture .

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1674898924937650176?s=46&t=SgrQkBdvvOiR3Ut0ZqcBcA

More moslems never hurt anyone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teen shouldn't have been shot but he was also a deeply problematic individual with a long history of encounters with the police. This isn't necessarily France's "George Floyd" moment, however. There are deep reservations towards the Arab populations, once you're outside the usual Parisian progressives. The riots are far more worrisome than the police shooting the teen.

this. this and this.

Perhaps the French should have thought of that before they established colonies in North Africa (and West Africa and the Caribbean). Of course, the same applies to Americans and their involvement in the slave trade.

No one can go back in time and correct prior mistakes

But these aren’t the usual French protests. These are severe riots with accompanying looting by North African and African youths, most of whom were born in France. France is actually better than most countries in Europe at integrating people, but obviously it’s not working. European identity is still based on nation states.

Generally

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teen shouldn't have been shot but he was also a deeply problematic individual with a long history of encounters with the police. This isn't necessarily France's "George Floyd" moment, however. There are deep reservations towards the Arab populations, once you're outside the usual Parisian progressives. The riots are far more worrisome than the police shooting the teen.

The teen wasn’t an Arab — he was a Berber!

Berbers were islamized by the Arab invasion of Algeria — they aren’t Arabs tho

Well does it matter and most importantly can most people tell the difference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teen shouldn't have been shot but he was also a deeply problematic individual with a long history of encounters with the police. This isn't necessarily France's "George Floyd" moment, however. There are deep reservations towards the Arab populations, once you're outside the usual Parisian progressives. The riots are far more worrisome than the police shooting the teen.

Once you scratch the surface almost everyone shot is not exactly a model citizen

So the cops who shoot unarmed citizens have their rap sheet in front of them when they make the decision to shoot or not? Or can they just "tell" by looking at them that they're not "model citizens"?

Not all but most cases are when a person is in a setting they wouldn’t be if they were an “upstanding citizen”. You know, living with a drug dealer or paying with a fake $20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The teen shouldn't have been shot but he was also a deeply problematic individual with a long history of encounters with the police. This isn't necessarily France's "George Floyd" moment, however. There are deep reservations towards the Arab populations, once you're outside the usual Parisian progressives. The riots are far more worrisome than the police shooting the teen.

this. this and this.

Perhaps the French should have thought of that before they established colonies in North Africa (and West Africa and the Caribbean). Of course, the same applies to Americans and their involvement in the slave trade.

Or they can stop with the white guilt and not bring so many over?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Macron needs to step down he has lost all control.

He has to stop dancing first.

[Anonymous]

Macron needs to stop fooling around and convene a meeting of the Estates General.

[Anonymous]

Well, Europe is getting the diversity they clamored for.

Look at how progressive they are. Ain't it amazing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, Europe is getting the diversity they clamored for.

Look at how progressive they are. Ain't it amazing?

When did Europe “clamor” for diversity? Non-European migrants in Europe are there due to historic reasons like colonialism, as guest workers, and to political and economic factors in their own country countries.

[Anonymous]

Parisian here.

I've long abandoned the idea that my compatriots are rational people when it comes to going down in the street, striking, protesting and looting over every perceived slight and imposition. When I was a high schooler in a Parisian lycee, it seemed crazy to me. And now in my 40s, it seems just as crazy.

In the case of banlieues youths dying while trying to escape police, I'm very sorry they died. This is not the first one. I am against police shooting at traffic stops. I am for this policeman getting the full wack of the homicide laws (he won't, but at least he's been arrested). The north African immigrant poor suburbs have always been a problem, even when they've been modernized and fully supported by low cost or free social/medical services and low cost public transportation. The youth is disaffected, many don't have jobs, there are gang and drug problems, and they've been raised to clash with the police and destroy government buildings any time something bad happens to one of them. The police has been trained to respond in this way against the banlieues youths from force of habit of always being targeted by them.

I don't know what the solution is, but it's sad that we can't seem to get out of this vicious cycle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Parisian here.

I've long abandoned the idea that my compatriots are rational people when it comes to going down in the street, striking, protesting and looting over every perceived slight and imposition. When I was a high schooler in a Parisian lycee, it seemed crazy to me. And now in my 40s, it seems just as crazy.

In the case of banlieues youths dying while trying to escape police, I'm very sorry they died. This is not the first one. I am against police shooting at traffic stops. I am for this policeman getting the full wack of the homicide laws (he won't, but at least he's been arrested). The north African immigrant poor suburbs have always been a problem, even when they've been modernized and fully supported by low cost or free social/medical services and low cost public transportation. The youth is disaffected, many don't have jobs, there are gang and drug problems, and they've been raised to clash with the police and destroy government buildings any time something bad happens to one of them. The police has been trained to respond in this way against the banlieues youths from force of habit of always being targeted by them.

I don't know what the solution is, but it's sad that we can't seem to get out of this vicious cycle.

Sounds a lot like what’s happening with Blacks and the police in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Parisian here.

I've long abandoned the idea that my compatriots are rational people when it comes to going down in the street, striking, protesting and looting over every perceived slight and imposition. When I was a high schooler in a Parisian lycee, it seemed crazy to me. And now in my 40s, it seems just as crazy.

In the case of banlieues youths dying while trying to escape police, I'm very sorry they died. This is not the first one. I am against police shooting at traffic stops. I am for this policeman getting the full wack of the homicide laws (he won't, but at least he's been arrested). The north African immigrant poor suburbs have always been a problem, even when they've been modernized and fully supported by low cost or free social/medical services and low cost public transportation. The youth is disaffected, many don't have jobs, there are gang and drug problems, and they've been raised to clash with the police and destroy government buildings any time something bad happens to one of them. The police has been trained to respond in this way against the banlieues youths from force of habit of always being targeted by them.

I don't know what the solution is, but it's sad that we can't seem to get out of this vicious cycle.

The solution is to send back anyone involved in anything unlawful and not to bring more people from clashing cultures

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Parisian here.

I've long abandoned the idea that my compatriots are rational people when it comes to going down in the street, striking, protesting and looting over every perceived slight and imposition. When I was a high schooler in a Parisian lycee, it seemed crazy to me. And now in my 40s, it seems just as crazy.

In the case of banlieues youths dying while trying to escape police, I'm very sorry they died. This is not the first one. I am against police shooting at traffic stops. I am for this policeman getting the full wack of the homicide laws (he won't, but at least he's been arrested). The north African immigrant poor suburbs have always been a problem, even when they've been modernized and fully supported by low cost or free social/medical services and low cost public transportation. The youth is disaffected, many don't have jobs, there are gang and drug problems, and they've been raised to clash with the police and destroy government buildings any time something bad happens to one of them. The police has been trained to respond in this way against the banlieues youths from force of habit of always being targeted by them.

I don't know what the solution is, but it's sad that we can't seem to get out of this vicious cycle.

The solution is to send back anyone involved in anything unlawful and not to bring more people from clashing cultures

Send back French citizens who were born in France? How is that gonna work?