"Inflection Point": Uprising over French Teen's Killing in Traffic Stop & Pattern of Racist Policing
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#6CQMQ)
In France, more than 3,000 people have been arrested after a week of nationwide protests following the police killing of Nahel Merzouk, a teenager of North African descent, captured on video. Nahel's family and friends held his funeral Saturday at a mosque in Nanterre. We speak with Rokhaya Diallo, a French journalist in Paris, who explains this killing is part of a long pattern of racist policing that has divided the country. I wish there was a real and profound discussion about police brutality, about racialized policing," says Diallo.