Major EU City Rioting!Paris.As Usual.

Does the dialogue between Basel & Trymer remind anyone?

Apparently the now dead teenager (and under age driver),had already driven away after being told to stop by Police.On catching the car up he was told ' don't drive off or we'll shoot you'!

He drove off.
They shot him.
He's dead.

That's tragic,but if a policeman tells you not to drive away or we'll shoot you.What would you do?Does fire burn?

The Cop will face a murder charge.

Would'nt he get a pat on the back in the US?

I think he'll get plenty of understanding from the French people.

A few years ago I was cruising down interstate 75 towards Knoxville when a police car appeared behind me and I realized I was about 20 mph over the limit. My son was with me and he chuckled as we pulled over and waited for the policeman to approach the car. I opened the drivers side window and the policeman came up and said something which I didn’t quite catch so I got a bit flustered and my son said “ Dad, Dad, he wants us to put our hands on the dashboard where he can see them”. We both did it immediately, the policeman relaxed, I relaxed and then got the expected bollocking plus a ticket which cost me $150.

I honestly believe the policeman would have acted the same way regardless of my race, age, gender or anything else. He was making sure we weren’t going to pull a gun on him and the easiest way to do that was for him to be able to see our hands.  It’s so simple really, you do what a policeman asks and there is no trouble or you don’t do what he asks and there is potentially trouble for you and everyone else. 

The problem we have is that so many leaders of society, from both sides of the political divide, are encouraging people to believe they don’t have to comply with the law or to respect the law enforcers. And the result of this is an increase in anarchic behavior which harms everyone but which does a disproportionate amount of harm to those who are weak and vulnerable and whom society should be protecting.

My god....even in the States the police do not get a "pat on the back" for killing teenagers.
As for Swiss's assertion -

"I honestly believe the policeman would have acted the same way regardless of my race, age, gender or anything else."

. The evidence tells us that is not true. The antagonism between some communities and police in the States is palpable. Sadly it has become this way in the UK as well.



As for this nonsense -

"In the UK you see plenty 'rewriting ' the law to suit themselves."

Who might they be then? Boris Johnson and his group of entitled people in Parliament perhaps?

We, on this forum, go around this roundabout every couple of months with the usual suspects writing unsubstantiated and clearly prejudicial comments about people and groups of whom they have zero knowledge other than parroting media outlets sought out for confirmation bias.

Frankly, it's pathetic.

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A " GoFundMe" plea has raised over 20'000 Euro for the French policeman!!

Given the level of sympathy for ultra right wing politics in France, I am surprised it's that small of an amount

Ignore him,he is trying to bait you,he tries to bait me and last week he was baiting Blue Tornados, he really is a master at it.

Fortunate for you then that the authorities in the UK police by consent rather than by force. Otherwise the next time you drive at 32mph in a 30mph zone, constituting a danger to users of that road you would not object to being shot...given your crass opinion.

The Police stopped him. He then drove off where he was stopped again. He was resisting. French police carry weapons. At what level of stupid do you have to be? Did he have a weapon in the car? How was the police officer to know?