boys suffer abusive controlled racial profiling. now they are killing them. this is far from the first time this happens. i've lived in france and i've covered plenty of riots there. they're rarely as violent as these latest ones, and i've seen for myself the way the french police deal with them — with a ferocity that often shocks a mere anglo—saxon. after the major riots of 2005, the police were given the kind of anti—riot weapons which are banned in most european countries, and they use them. on average, the french police kill four times as many people as they did only 12 years ago. the gendarmes, as opposed to the ordinary police, are courier soldiers. they're allowed to use armed force more easily than the police are. and there's a lot less political