Paris police officers to remain in custody over beating of Black music producer

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  1. Space_Time

    Space_Time Well-Known Member

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    Not much information here. It doesn't say why he was being arrested. The officers will probably be prosecuted:
     
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    This is an example of how sometimes bail can be denied, because they believe it will interfere with the process of justice.
    In this case the reasoning is they are afraid if the police were lying, they might all be able to further communicate with each other and be able to come up with a consistent false story.

    Of course these supposed reasons can often be used by prosecutors as an excuse to keep the persons in jail for other reasons.
    For example, in this case to try to quell public outrage.
     
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    Maybe because the media does not care about that.

    Usually in these cases of police beatings, the suspect resisted.
     
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    He was walking around outside without a face mask.
    On seeing a police car he went into his studio to avoid getting a fine.
     
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    I've never seen the words "shameful for France" in a sentence before.
     
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    I had an interface with Paris police way back in 1968. I was in a bar when a screwball entered with a tiny .25mm pistol and started shooting randomly. I was struck in the lower leg. The police arrived soon after he ran out of ammo. Two of them helped me out of the bar into an ambulance and the third one took the perpetrator outside and beat him mercilessly leaving him lying in the street. I decided right then and there never to pick a fight with the Paris police. I went to the emergency room, had the bullet removed, the wound sutured and returned to my hotel. Not a big deal for me like it was for the shooter.
     
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    What did it feel like? Just curious. Since bullets come out hot, was it burning after the bullet entered your leg? What did it feel like when it first hit?
     
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    Yes, hot and painful. Luckily it wasn't a serious wound. Small caliber from a small gun that missed anything important.
     
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    Glad you didn't suffer anything permanent. Thanks for sharing the story.
     
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    Not really relevant to know why a person was being arrested, when the police gets busted making racist slurs while beating a black guy for 6 minutes. The cops lied that their victim was reaching for their gun(s). It's all on camera. The guy got released within hours from the police station when he arrived. The arrest is a total joke.

    To think the French government wants it to be illegal to film cops like that. lol
    They really aint all there. I don't think how trashing freedom (of the press) can possible be uphold in the EU courts.
    Good thing there is a check on local insanity.
     
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    The plot thickens:
     
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    This is looking like France's George Floyd moment:
     
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    Except Floyd is dead, and this guys is alive.

    And there is where the massive difference is.
    Only 26 people got killed by cops in France in 2018. It's really rare.
    Where your previous post was about BLM... L standing for lives....
    Black lives are cheap in the US... even the unarmed kind, statistically.
    The US really stands out on this one, even when racism is everywhere.


    Good racist incident yesterday in France during a champions league soccer match.
    A (I think it was) Romanian officially used the n-word to reply to the reff who had to be given a red card.
    To than claim... it's no biggy to say that... it just means "black". My google translate said otherwise.
    Teams walked off the field ending the game after 15 minutes or so.
     
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    Literally everything is racist.
     
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    I just play it safe now and don't talk to black people because I have no clue what's racist this week so yes if one is walking towards me I will now cross the street.

    I am the enemy now apparently.
     
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    You don't understand. It's not that a lot of things are racist and few things are not - literally everything is racist.

    This comment is racist, your reaction to it is racist. If you never see this, your lack of a reaction is racist.

    Whatever I need to be racist at any particular moment is racist.
     
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    Very good point.

    This is the hate and divisiveness that the left brings with them.
     
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    Tough days for people who were brought up the "good 'ol fashioned way" that's saying... with 1950 norms of behaving.
    Them days were pre Jim Crow.
     
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