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.
@devnull @riley @yacc143 @rasterweb A cop killed ONE brown kid. And the riots almost shut down the country and the army was almost in the streets. In the US cops kill dozens of black/brown kids daily.
France is a paradise where people think they're in hell. The US is (not quite but well on its way) hell where people think they're in paradise.
@VeroniqueB99 Not really: They killed one MORE brown kid. They killed more than 1ā¦ They've been killing brown, black and arab kids for decadesā¦ Not to mention the deaths and injuries during yellow vests protests since 2018ā¦
People had enoughā¦ especially since the murderer cop has received donations, total of 1 fucking million ā¬
In some regions, there was RAID armored vehicles in the streetsā¦ And there has been multiple people sent to coma because trigger-happy copsā¦
@VeroniqueB99 couldn't help but shoot at people to show them who is in chargeā¦
So in a way, it IS like having the army in the streetsā¦
More than 580 people have been arrested and immediately trialed (not given a chance to prepare their defense), 400 of which went to prisonā¦ Immediate trial is a common thing against protestersā¦
And that's not to mention all the rest. How cops build up false accusations against protesters and brown kids, how they threaten them. [ā¦]
@VeroniqueB99 [ā¦] or how the president have hijacked the latests electrions' resulted. First delaying things "because of the Olympics games", and then ignoring the elections results to name a right-wing reactionary asshole as prime sinisterā¦ The president caused these early elections in order to give more power tovthe far-right wingā¦
This is certainly not "Paradise".
Since 2018 protests, many people have been imprisoned and/or lost an eye/hand/hearingā¦
@VeroniqueB99 Plus multiple deathsā¦ We don't have gang wars but we have many violent cops protected by the IGPN, and far-right militias protected by copsā¦
For the rest, maybe US people should wake up and cease buying into the "greatest democracy in the world" kind of nationalist bullshitā¦ Which is USA favorite excuse to justify colonization, war crimes, kidnapping and torturing people to obtain confessions, and tindefinite detentionā¦ But yeah, USA is a democracyā¦
@devnull ...I do agree with your 2nd paragraph there.
I suggest you go live in the US then tell me about it. How long have you lived abroad (anywhere)? In order to claim 'more' or 'less' you have to have both perspectives... yours is severely skewed.
@devnull y but nowhere near the numbers they kill in the US. Deaths/injuries during protests are vasly different than a kid playin in a park shot like it's open season.... sorry but vastly different in France vs the US.
@VeroniqueB99 I'm not saying it's the same. I'm just saying: In terms of political abuse and police violence, France is not as nice as the French, billionaire-owned media outlet, pretend it is.
Yes it's different. But it's far from Paradise and things are getting worse. Police violence is limited to protests only IF it's white people. For all others, cops find their waysā¦
As far as I'm concerned, cops are a nuisance, no matter what flag they wear on their shoulderā¦
Cops are far right anywhere in the world anyway so I'm with you there... but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater...