Some warn that property destruction during protests could backfire
3 Sep 20 1:45 PM · 4d ago · 34 comments · 1 source · development 3 of 3
Other commenters cautioned that violent protest tactics such as burning property risk alienating the public and strengthening far-right politics.
“Seriously each time they do burn/smash public and private property they drive more people to Le Pen.”
shadowops.bsky.socialAssemblée Nationale Lower house of French ParliamentSénat Upper house of French ParliamentParis protesters Demonstrators against the billFrench police / law enforcement officials Beneficiaries of the proposed legal presumption
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first by Mastodon, 3d ago · also Al Jazeera, France 24 EN
2 more headlines
- ‘Licence to kill:’ French protests decry police use-of-force bill Al Jazeera · 3d ago
- What’s behind French protests against a new police bill? Al Jazeera · 2d ago
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first by Bangkok Post, 3d ago · also SCMP, Straits Times
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What people said 24 voices · best of 49 · verbatim
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End qualified immunity rather than expand it!
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Dude, if you think Melanchon Is the best candidate for France, you are absolutely delusional. He hates the French. Why the hell should put some guy who hates the people of a country in charge of that country.
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It is this attitude that has led to over 600 deaths in custody of first nations in Australia in the past 26 years The fact that there is no one removing the far right, the racists and the violent from police and prison duties is the issue. Police do not need less oversight, they need more.
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Expanding police powers is especially scary considering that France is going to elect the authoritarian Le Pen next year to be its leader. Authoritarians love police brutality.
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The problem is the destruction. Right to protest yes, right to burn property no. And now the insurance is out of control because these f*ckers. Seriously each time they do burn/smash public and private property they drive more people to Le Pen.
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I was more thinking about the violence against the yellow jackets or at Saint Soline. Racism is very much a thing as well, and much more in the spotlight this year indeed
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Many will be killed by the police with the “she was resisting “ story.
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Trying to be like American cops and their qualified immunity.
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Sounds like a very conservative idea. "You have no right to defend yourself against a criminal police riot."
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don't allow it, France. qualified immunity for police is a license for legalized murder.
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It’s an excuse to shoot you for breathing too deeply.
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Don't let them have this. It's a disaster.
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It's implemented because of the paving stones used to build roads to hell. Similar to Good Samaritan laws: make a rule that says injuring people while trying to help them isn't a criminal offense, to encourage people to help other people. Like how cars help but can kill, two edges on that sword.
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So the French authorities saw cops and ICE agents getting away with shooting people in America and said “Oh Man, I gotta get me some of that!”???
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This sounds a lot like qualified immunity. Do not give it to them. American police are violent. Qualified immunity let them get away with murder.
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Now, if the United States could just learn from history.
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Go forward Paris, and don't let them take you where they have taken America. We have to fight every day just to try and maintain our constitutional rights.
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look up qualified immunity sometime—that directly undermines all the lofty goals you just stated
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The French people don't take no s***unlike we American pussies 🧚
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I hope they remember in May that it is backed by the far-right
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Yeah, that sounds bad. Like blanket qualified immunity here.
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France is the size of Texas. We barely manage a national No Kings protest precisely because the insane logistics that come with the Lower 48 be 12 times the size of France. Throw in most everyone can't get time off from work because We're Not France, and expecting anything similar here is silly.
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Keep protesting as long as possible. A new study finds the number of people in the U.S. who’ve died at the hands of law enforcement has risen significantly over the last couple of decades, with Black men — ages 18 to 29 — seeing the highest mortality rates.
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Excellent! Especially because Police around the world pretty-much have that presumption anyway. It's very difficult to get a court or a jury to convict police - and even more difficult to get police to lay charges against police.
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