VeeI keep telling all my friends in the US. You don't ask you don't get.
Pete Prodoehl š@VeroniqueB99 Have you met the militarized police here in the states?
Andreas K@rasterweb @VeroniqueB99 Have you met the French military that is openly used to police French cities nowadays? With automatic weapons.
Doesn't keep the French from expressing their opinion. š¤·
Riley S. Faelan@yacc143 France is one of these countries where militarised police, the gendarmerie, is an ordinary thing, not a special thing. If you have heard of Italy's carabinieri, it's kind of like that.
The trick is that in France, there's also civilian, unarmed, police, doing most common police things, especially in the cities. In USA, all police gangs behave like they're the gendarbinieri.
š§DaveNullš§ ā£ļøpResident Evilā£>> unarmed, police, doing most common police things, especially in the cities
Used to be true LOOONG ago. Not anymore, not since Sarkozy armed municipal police. And after sarkozy, things got worse and police kill even more than beforeā¦
More "recently" (the last 7 years) things escalated very badly. During protests but also because trigger-happy far-right voting cops have now access to even more weapons and kill people just becauseā¦
A cop killed a brown kid. Not only the murderer has been protected, but he has earned 1 Million ā¬URO from the racist bourgeoisie, on a donation plateformā¦
People rioted to protest against this shit, so the "centrists" (far right ass lickers) in power usedā¦ the RAID (anti terrorist police) against protestersā¦ who killed other peopleā¦
It's time for a revolution. But this time, not a bourgeoisie revolution against the nobility.
It's more than time for a proletariat revolution against the fascist bourgeoisie.
I can't tell if the USA is worse or no, but France is looking more and more like USAā¦ in terms of social regression and human rightsā¦
@riley By the way, there's isnt much of a difference between gendarmerie and cops when it comes to using weapons and violence. Both carry weapons, both have many far-right voters, both are violent and both are aggressive toward leftist protesters and environmentalistsā¦
The only difference is: The gendarmerie is military. And police is not, but is still militirizedā¦
Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette@devnull @riley @yacc143 @rasterweb @VeroniqueB99
Gendarmerie tends to be more disciplined and less trigger happy around here. During protests they mostly come in and talk to people and just ask that if we see someone breaking things, we should report them and keep tabs on them. Police never goes to protests without full body armor and faceshields. Gendarmerie show up the same for a car crash and a protest unless something crazy is happening