Protests in France highlight anti-black state violence
French citizens and members of the international community are calling attention to numerous police-citizen conflicts and killings by law enforcement.
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French citizens and members of the international community are calling attention to numerous police-citizen conflicts and killings by law enforcement.
The latest protests erupted after Nahel, a boy of Algerian descent, was shot dead by the French police for allegedly not having a driver’s license. This comes just months after the country was rocked by protests regarding President Macron’s highly controversial pension reform.
France finds itself at the center of the global reckoning over police violence.
French police reject accusations of violence but protesters, journalists and experts decry the repeated use of weapons and restrictive preventative measures.