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France riots: Why are police using guns during traffic stops?
BBC News ^ | June 30, 2023

Posted on 07/02/2023 8:03:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The fatal shooting by police of a 17-year-old boy driving a car in a Paris suburb is the latest in a spate of such deadly incidents in France.

It was the third killing this year during a police traffic stop and followed a record 13 deaths last year.

Most of the victims have been of black or Arab origin, Reuters news agency reports.

What is the legal basis for firing during a traffic stop? By law French police are allowed to shoot in five instances following a 2017 change in the law.

That includes when the driver or occupants of a vehicle ignore an order to stop and are deemed to pose a risk to the officer's life or physical safety, or other people's.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; europe; france; islam; islamic; muslim; muslims; police
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1 posted on 07/02/2023 8:03:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Because the perps don’t stop?


2 posted on 07/02/2023 8:04:26 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: MinorityRepublican

This pundit should try doing police traffic stops without a gun.


3 posted on 07/02/2023 8:05:14 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: MinorityRepublican

Because cars stopping ahd then headed towards another cop might be a bad thing?


4 posted on 07/02/2023 8:06:43 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: MinorityRepublican

I dunno? Look around what’s going on in France, idiot BBC.


5 posted on 07/02/2023 8:07:00 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: MinorityRepublican

People who are innocent do not flee and elude or otherwise fail to stop.


6 posted on 07/02/2023 8:07:19 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I for one am glad to see police are now carrying and using weapons. I well remember in 2015 in the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack when French police rode up on their bicycles blowing their whistles


7 posted on 07/02/2023 8:07:33 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: MinorityRepublican

Using a gun and having a gun are two different things. Only a fool would approach a complete stranger who has violated the law without having some form of protection.


8 posted on 07/02/2023 8:07:46 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: WKUHilltopper

The “youth” had a rap sheet as long as his arm. So of course the woke children at the BBC blame the cops


9 posted on 07/02/2023 8:09:39 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

Everyone knows that 17 year old being shot or French institutional racism is responsible for this for 1000 years:

Peacefully burning libraries in Marseille and Metz and doing this for 1 000 years because of... a young migran was shot? Hmmm. Let’s see:

https://youtube.com/shorts/hkjkzWW83wY?feature=share

830 years after 9 million books in Nalanda were burnt by Islamists, the largest public library in the city of Marseille in France has been set on fire.

Knowledge is everything. The villain understands this more than the victim

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1674753610620518400

BREAKING:

6/30/23

Rioters in France have set the Jean-Macé library in Metz on fire tonight.

Looks like the building is beyond saving

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1674916723663724546


10 posted on 07/02/2023 8:09:45 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: MinorityRepublican
Headline: "France riots: Why are police using guns during traffic stops?"

Becuse F-16s weren't available?

11 posted on 07/02/2023 8:10:41 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Send these Brits to rural America for a bit. They’ll figure it out or be dead.


12 posted on 07/02/2023 8:11:21 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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“Send these Brits to rural America for a bit. They’ll figure it out or be dead.”

Better yet, send them to one of the RAT run crapholes here.


13 posted on 07/02/2023 8:18:02 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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“Rioters in France have set the Jean-Macé library in Metz on fire tonight. Looks like the building is beyond saving.”

I’m wondering how burning down a library helps a desperate ‘refugee’ (who happens to fly home for the holidays once a year) feed his family...which is what we keep being told is the reason for the riots - poverty.


14 posted on 07/02/2023 8:34:08 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: MinorityRepublican

BBC is going completely over the edge. I can’t imagine who is in control of that place now


15 posted on 07/02/2023 8:35:10 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

If people are protesting, I may not like it, but if they
are peaceful it’s Constitutionally protected. If course
this was in France, but it is a general rule that is
reasoned there also.

If there is open rioting and looting, I honestly don’t care
if officers shoot into the rioters as a general rule.

If a vehicle is being used to ram or threaten officers, I’m
not going to defend the driver. Use what force is necessary
to prevent the perp from being successful.

I grow weary of hoodlums on the street thinking they run
the show.

It’s time to put that to bed. And if they want to make
new laws about people openly stealing in businesses, I say
give the proprietors permission to use lethal force.

We need to get back to a law abiding society. That’s how
you do it.


16 posted on 07/02/2023 8:49:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: BobL

Don’t you know that the French were racists way back as far as 642 AD, especially against Algerians, and that the peaceful people had no choice but to burn the library of Alexandria, the following libraries, and the ones in Marseille and Metz recently?

Library of Rayy (destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazii).

Library of Nalanda (destroyed by Baktiyar Khilzi).

Library of Alexandria (destroyed by Umar ibn al-Kattab).

Library of Cordoba (destroyed by Al Mansur).


17 posted on 07/02/2023 8:53:17 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Not rural America. Try Chicago, LA, or NYC


18 posted on 07/02/2023 9:36:21 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Its All Over Except ...

In 732, numerically inferior forces under Charles Martel defeated an invading Muslim army at Tours in northern France. This is seen as important in preventing Europe from being Islamized like Christian north Africa and the mideast was.


19 posted on 07/02/2023 10:05:42 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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“That includes when the driver or occupants of a vehicle ignore an order to stop and are deemed to pose a risk to the officer’s life or physical safety, or other people’s.”

Which, of course, never happens during traffic stops./sarc


20 posted on 07/02/2023 10:24:59 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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