A tale of "why don't we riot like the French"
Also worth noting is that in France it’s fucking illegal to hit a protestor with your car and there are no Stand Your Ground laws.
Why can’t we protest like France? BECAUSE WE’LL GET FUCKING KILLED.
Not quite correct, lib.
I’ve seen some weak ass takes about how after 2020 the police are “more militarized” and thats whats stopping us from rioting.
Thats some big “you’re lucky I'm held back” energy. As if people across the planet in the global south arent facing off with pigs who routinely fire live rounds at protestors. Compared to that, we have it easy in some regards here.
Police in El Salvador, Mexico, Iraq, Venezuela, the Philippines etc. have militarized police and security forces that kill with impunity. These places are also raveged by violent right-wing militias, gangs, and cartels that terrorize indigenous, queer, and working people.
- Black Velvet
On March 26, in Sainte-Soline (France), our comrade S. was hit in the head by an explosive grenade during the demonstration against the basins. In spite of his critical condition, the prefecture first intentionally prevented emergency services from intervening, then prevented them from transporting him to an appropriate care unit a second time. He is currently in neurosurgical intensive care. At this time, his life hangs by a thread. The outburst of violence that the demonstrators suffered inflicted hundreds of injuries, including several serious physical injuries, as announced in the various reports available. The 30,000 demonstrators had come with the objective of blocking the construction of the mega-basins of Sainte-Soline, a project of water monopolization carried out by a small number of people for the benefit of a capitalist model that has nothing left to defend but death. The violence of the armed arm of the democratic state is the most striking expression of this. In response to the window of possibility that the movement against the pension reform has opened, the police are mutilating people and even trying to assassinate people in order to prevent an uprising, to defend the bourgeoisie and its world.
- Communique About S.
also WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHY CAN'T YOU PROTEST LIKE WE DO IN FRANCE, YOU LITERALLY DID DURING BLACK LIVES MATTER, YOU PUSHED COPS OUT OF A CITY
some people just love to whine, "oh we can't protest there'd be repression" no shit "oh it's better over there" no it's fucking not, "oh these guys who protested didn't protest right" yeah right fuck you
Shout out to French protestors rioting once again. Y’all are taking real risks for a better world and you don’t deserve these pathetic online takes that disregard your bravery, written by folks who would never riot even if we armed the police with teddy bears and marshmallows.
Cops killed Nahel, a 17yo kid, last Tuesday. It's another person killed because of cops' racism. It's the match that makes the explosion. We French now riot whatever laws are. The minister of police is a racist and rapist, the cops are protected from everything, the French government spits in our face since too long. Before we were rioting because its our right, but this riot is not because we can, but because we must. Laws are still made to protect the cops, but this time laws won't stop us. 994 people were arrested for rioting since Tuesday, most of them are poc people, because they're the most touched by all of this, and they are still proving it. It's not a riot like the ones for the abusive retirement laws, it's a riot to avenge people's lives, and to show we won't let that happen without acting. It involves lots of destruction, maybe not the places we should target first, but our wrath is too big.
Justice for Nahel, and all the other victims!
