Real talk, what makes protests in France so different than the US? At every protest I’ve seen or been to in the US, protesters are almost always at the mercy of the police. Of course there is often pushback, but it doesn’t take much until police are beating, arresting, and less-than-lethaling everyone in sight until protesters are inevitably split up, whittled down, or otherwise herded to where they can be more easily rounded up by police. I’ve seen cops back down before but it’s almost always only temporarily until they can get more reinforcements, and while I know on paper the people outnumber police, there always seems to be more police available.
When the system is threatened police are always the same . One of the worst was g8 protest in italy in 2001
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/17/italy.g8
Stefan Bauer dared to answer back: when a German-speaking guard asked where he was from, he said he was from the European Union and he had the right to go where he wanted. He was hauled out, beaten, given a face full of pepper spray, stripped naked and put under a cold shower. His clothes were taken away and he was returned to the freezing cell wearing only a flimsy hospital gown.
Shivering on the cold marble floors of the cells, the detainees were given few or no blankets, kept awake by guards, given little or no food and denied their statutory right to make phone calls and see a lawyer. They could hear crying and screaming from other cells.
Men and women with dreadlocks had their hair roughly cut off to the scalp. Marco Bistacchia was taken to an office, stripped naked, made to get down on all fours and told to bark like a dog and to shout “Viva la polizia Italiana!” He was sobbing too much to obey. An unnamed officer told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that he had seen brother officers urinating on prisoners and beating them for refusing to sing Faccetta Nera, a Mussolini-era fascist song.
Ester Percivati, a young Turkish woman, recalled guards calling her a whore as she was marched to the toilet, where a woman officer forced her head down into the bowl and a male jeered “Nice arse! Would you like a truncheon up it?” Several women reported threats of rape, anal and vaginal.
I’m not sure why France gets such a bad rap about being pussies. These seems pretty fucking metal to me. A buncha pure badasses. Oh and fuck these douchebag cops.
It’s only the Americans. Not sure why either. Historically and always, the French go hard.
It’s especially weird because the French going hard is how the colonists got carried to US independence.
I think it’s a relatively more recent thing where US conservative anti-France propoganda was very successful when they refused to support one of the US wars in the middle east. Can’t remember which but it’s where terms like “freedom fries” started popping up and then I think some people retconned France getting their shit pushed in early in WWII as somehow meaning they surrender easily even though in reality they were bearing the brunt of the Nazi invasion. But yeah without the French there would be no USA.
Fascists expect other people to be cowards like they are, unfortunately…
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