Looks like Veritas got punked, darnit!
The real story:
Police across France threw away their handcuffs on Thursday and Friday to protest a new ban on chokeholds and neck restraint.
In Rennes, police locked their cuffs to the fence outside the prefecture.
On Monday, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced the chokehold will no longer be taught in police and gendarmerie schools. “It is a method that has its dangers,” he told AFP.
Castaner “doesn’t even know what he’s talking about.” Police union leader Jean-Paul Megret said. “Every day, you’re dealing with people who are completely insane.”
Protesting new restrictions on the use of force, police across France threw away their handcuffs in public demonstrations on Thursday and Friday.
In the Paris suburb of Bobigny, officers stood in line to throw down their cuffs one at a time, the BBC reported, Similar demonstrations were held in Lille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and other cities.
Angry French police officers discard their handcuffs to protest reforms, which they say don’t give them the means to properly intervene.
2019 data shows some 10 aggressions against French police daily, making policing one of the toughest jobs in France.
On Friday a convoy of squad cars drove down the Champs-Élysées sounding their horns.
The actions came after Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced on Monday a ban on chokeholds and neck restraints, after a weekend of anti-police protests where participants invoked George Floyd and Adama Traore, a Mali-French 24-year-old who was killed in police custody in 2016.
Handcuffs on the ground in Bordeaux during a protest called by police unions.
Mark
Thank you so much for the correction! How did you find this out?
I remember reading around the George Floyd stuff that the hold where cops put their knee on the neck of a perp is used all over including Israel and causes no danger to perps while rendering them immobilizes for the time being. I wonder if this is what the cops in France are referring to, or something else.
During the yellow vest protests that went on for a long time (and gradually got taken over by thugs/black blocs or something), cops were brutally beating protestors.
I wonder how European countries are doing protesting the covid scamdemic. I haven’t looked around twtter for a long time, there have been lots and lots of protests; those in the UK were getting serious beat downs by cops.