French authorities confirmed that a protest against police violence set to take place in Paris on Saturday could not go ahead due to police shortages. NGOs say the ban signals a “more and more repressive” approach from authorities.
If there’s one thing that has proven to stop protests, it’s laws.
Maybe the cops should try not being violent.
Woah now, let’s not get too crazy with our solutions /s
But the only tool they have is a hammer.
*gun
Oh wait, that’s the U.S.
Well I mean over here too. The protests are about extrajudicial killings of minorities.
Wait, if cops in the US, France, and Germany are bastards, does that mean All Cops Are Bastards?
Let’s not jump conclusions. I’m sure not all cops are bastard, for example dead ones.
Surely this will stop them this time for really real
“You can’t protest agains police violence because we don’t have enough police officers”. I’m sure that will stop them
It almost seems like a trap, they are all but saying “please stop protesting we can’t take it any more”, a protest becomes a coup/revolution if the authorities refuse to concede to the demands and are overwhelmed by the protesters
I wish the French people a very pleasant Sixth Republic
Lmk when they post a guillotine GoFundMe
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May the North Africans lead the revolution
So sixth republic when?
So we are commanding you not to protest police, also we don’t have enough police to enforce our command.
We know you’re upset with the police but don’t come into our police-free zone. Pretty please.
Longer I think about this the funnier it gets.
Oh boy that’s going to go over well
LOL, clowns.
The French right now.People protesting: no problem
People protesting and then certain groups “joining” them and burning cars and breaking windows requires a police presence.
Stop burning shit.
And yeah it won’t stop the protest from happening just because the French authorities banned the protest. Probably a few people will get arrested though.
Ever hear the term “Agent provocateur”?
Yes I have and that was basically the point of my comment.
It isn’t the protestors burning shit it’s other bad actors. But whether it’s the protestors burning stuff or the other bad actors is really irrelevant. Either way stuff is getting damaged so there needs to be a police presence.
Why would they arrest their own undercover agents?
The police presence is to arrest (violently) anyone who tries to stop the agents provocateur.
If you miss the chance you have to set more small businesses on fire.
Now that is the dumbest thing I’ve read so far.
Either way stuff is getting damaged so there needs to be a police presence.
why, what are they going to do, arrest the fire? Shoot at it?
How about arrest the arsonist?
I refer you to @TheGreatFox 's reply.
Blame the victim.
It’s such a common maneuver when you want to undermine a person or a movement’s legitimacy that we even gave it a name.
In the United States MLK talked about this in so many words. He described perfectly how many people will say that they agree with your goals but not with your methods. And if you were to ask what their methods are, it would involve waiting. The problem with that is that waiting doesn’t fix anything.
Where was I blaming the victim?
I openly said it isn’t the protestors burning shit.
The other victim would be the owners of the cars and businesses… how am I blaming them?
Oh, that’s an easy one. You framed the problem wrong. When you decided to talk about the problem in terms of the protests, you decided that the actual problem was not important. So that was basically irresponsible.
And the outcome of your framing decision is anti-democratic. If the only thing we look at is the protest, then it’s easy for people to say and believe that a fringe element of looters or rioters is unavoidable, and therefore either the police should have more power to deal with protesters or protests themselves ought to be canceled.
It’s certainly possible to discuss protests and avoid the above pitfalls, but it definitely requires careful consideration.
I’m hoping there is a hidden /s in there.
It is entirely possible to talk about who is burning shit and care about the protests and care about the protestors and care about the businesses that are being destroyed. Just because I didn’t mention every single one of those things in a comment doesn’t mean I don’t care about them.
Please do try to mention them anyway, because not doing so comes across as callousness, regardless of how you actually feel about it.
Your argument is a valid viewpoint - you want positive change for the people protesting, but you want it without any of the wanton violence or burning that goes along with rioting; correct?
However, it is also true that you were: (1) placing the onus of non-violence on the people who were wronged, and protesting here. (2) assuming there was some way for the people protesting, to seperate themselves from the bad actors who engage in these riots with the sole purpose of destroying and looting shit. (3) assuming that there are other easily available methods were the masses could change the system they’re in without any of the rioting. (4) assuming that the powers that be (legislative bodies/lawmakers/policy builders) willingly engage in these methods in good faith, for which history already has plenty of counter-examples.
