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gay-impressionist

france is burning.

667 people were arrested last night. they are curfews in place. public transport is partially closed at night.

nahel, a 17-year-old, was shot tuesday by the police during a traffic stop. he wasn't violent or armed, he wasn't a threat. but he broke the law and tried to drive away, so the cops killed him.

and now france is rioting.

there is a video so the government isn't trying to deny the facts for once. but the minister of the interior (in charge of the police) still insist that the police shot less people since the 2017 law on public safety.

but an analysis of police statistics by Le Monde, the most read newspaper in france, says otherwise. when the police shot on average 250 people each year in the five years prior to 2017, that number became 297 after 2017. for shots fired specifically on moving vehicles, the average used to be 119 and it's now 150. before 2017, there was an average of 0.06 deaths per shot. now it's 0.32.

more than ever, the police shoots to kill.

so france is burning.

postingtreyf

One thing to note is that it’s extremely difficult (if not impossible) to get data to see if French police are targeting minorities more than others because it’s Literally Illegal for the French government to collect race and religion data. Egalité means everyone is French. There’s no such thing as the hyphenated nationality thing that we do in the US because apparently it’s racist (per the French government’s pov) for me to identify as a Jewish-Italian-Ethnic German American a friend of mine to identify as a Chinese-American.

The complete lack of demographic data due to Government Mandated Colorblindness enables french white supremacy. Cops in France routinely harass those descended from the former french colonies. And no matter how many generations someone’s family has been in France if your melanin isn’t an “acceptable shade” and/or your name is too un-French, many white french people will treat you like a foreigner and/or 2nd class citizen.

This murder of a child and subsequent attempted coverup has resulted in what’s basically Ferguson had it been nation-wide.

gay-impressionist

This is 100% true : what we call "ethnic statistics" are illegal (which is both a good thing and bad thing in my opinion but that's a debate for another time). But we have some data still.

For example, the defender of rights (french independent administrative authority) published a study in 2017 stating that young men perceived as black or arab are 20 times more likely to be stopped by the police for identity checks.

And no one needs a study to know that know that the police disproportionately kills black and arab young men in situations like these. You just need to think of all the names we mourned : Zyed, Bouna, Adama, Nahel, Malik Oussekine... The list goes on and on and on and on

(oh and, about our current situation. 997 people were arrested last night. the increasing number makes sense as, even if things were just a bit quieter than the night before, 45 000 cops were deployed. so.)