Cameras Capture Racist Taunts of Anti-Riot Police (France)

Times On Line ^ | 11/10/05 | Charles Bremner

[Dallas59]

Gee, 12 zillion cars torched..schools and churches burned to the ground...and unequiped, untrained, unsupported police using "tu" instead of "vou" is fretted over?

[Sociopathocracy]

Further proof that the Frogs are done for.

[oceanview]

great - now Chirac et al can blame the police for the riots.

[crazycat]

Good to see that at least some Police know what they are dealing with....Scum.

[agere_contra]

So you want to go and fry with your mates? You want to go into the transformer? Shut your ugly mug, we’re going to give you a going over

I can't help thinking: Hooray for at least one French policeman, driven to his limits by days of cretinous inaction by the soi-disant French elite.

[Tzimisce]

*scoffs* I'm sure the MSM will treat this as big news.

[L98Fiero]

Maybe I missed them but where were the "racist taunts" as the title states?

[CondorFlight]

After the authorities finish apologizing all over France for the use of some offensive language by police, the rioters will become really emboldended, and, sensing weakness, may upgrade their attacks into a real intifada.Then, the French will have to seriously have to consider sending in the army.
So a bad situation will become worse, because the PC crowd
will tend to make a mountain out of molehill over police conduct, instead of seeing it as a minor sidelight.

[theFIRMbss]

“We don’t give a s*** if your estate calms down,” added the officer, using the disrespectful “tu” rather than “vous”

[Murtyo]

"tu" - from my french class - years ago, "tu" is used when you're familiar with someone, like you friends or family. "Vou" for someone you don't know or a teacher or superior. I don't think "tu" is automatically 'disrespectful'.

Have we chased all the French people away or can a native French speaker answer this??

[Mount Athos]

Maybe the muslims can further cripple the police with political correctness. The socialists will eagerly help along.

A lot of these European countries haven't figured out something. When you focus your criticisms on the police, and make them the suspect when they try to stop crime, then suddenly the police aren't very motivated to fight crime. And you get lots, and lots of crime.

[massgopguy]

"Your mother is a hampster and your father smells of elderberries. Now go away or I shall taunt you for a second time."

[drlevy88]

Shut your ugly mug, we’re going to give you a going over

Which of course Jacques (un ver) Chirac has forbidden, and everyone knows it.

[reagan_fanatic]

"Go away or I shall taunt you some more!"

[Dallas59]

No where. Of course a white French Officer "demanding" papers from an Arab French Muslim could be construed as "racist"....In France...or just about anywhere..

[dighton]

The horror!

“We don’t give a s*** if your estate calms down,” added the officer, using the disrespectful “tu” rather than “vous”.

[drlevy88]

Boy!

[af_vet_rr]

I thought we were supposed to be the racist country.

Oh wait, we actually integrate people into our society while allowing them to celebrate their heritage. The French just push them off to the fringes.

Having lived in Europe several times, my only question is why this is happening now, and not 15 or 20 years ago - the conditions existed then. You have all of these people (and it's not just Islamic or Arabs either, contrary to what the MSM would have you believe) that are treated like second-class citizens. The French would rather bury their heads in the sand than take a look around at their failed policies.

[Aquinasfan]

Gee, 12 zillion cars torched..schools and churches burned to the ground...and unequiped, untrained, unsupported police using "tu" instead of "vou" is fretted over?

Impressive, isn't it?

[JudgemAll]

I'm french and you're absolutely right. It's also an indication of cop custody. Once in custody or near custody of a cop, there is no "vous" applying. It communicates clearly intentions.