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

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

[cgbg]

It did illustrate the wall of incomprehension that separates the white French police from the inhabitants of the sprawling estates whose young men have gone on the rampage.

This reporter wants the police to comprehend the rioters. If it were my country I would want the police to shoot first to protect people and property. If you "comprehend" the enemy that is the first step in negotiating with them. In the case of the French negotiations end with only one possible result--capitulation.

So, the reporter's agenda is now clear.

[Ashamed Canadian]

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

There aren't any... Also, they're harping on about the usage of 'Tu' as opposed to 'Vous'. So what, that's nothing. He's a cop, the rioter is a kid. Big deal.

[dannyboy72]

No dout in my mind that the MSM and the French Media want these events to continue - it's gives them a story. And even though they are covering up the true nature of the problem, they still would rather be covering this tye of activity than cats stuck in trees or whatever the next big trial is.

The problem is the media correctly using the term "cover" these stories. Unfortunately, they are supposed to be "reporting" the story.

[LikeLight]

A quiet night in France...

I'd hate to be there on a bad night.

(All above images sourced to last night or today)

[SF Republican]

They have special riot police in Paris, they are big, mean, dumb, thugs, they should be perfect. As far as tu and vous, that just bs. When I first was learning to speak french one of my first phrases was un Pastis se vous ple,(a Pastis if you please) my brother in law said, anyone ordering Pastis would not say vous or please

[Murtyo]

"Votre mère est un hampster et vos odeurs de père des baies de sureau. Allez maintenant loin ou je taunt vous pendant une deuxième fois."

[smith288]

Thousands of cars and personal property burned to the ground and the medias focuses on a policeman using "tu" rather than "vou".

Oh the humanity!!!! Send him to the Hague!

[Cowboy Bob]

THIS is an extract of a verbal exchange between police and estate teenagers near Lyons, shown on the TF1 television channel. First a boy addresses a police officer who has demanded the boy’s papers in rough terms — using the disrespectful “tu” instead of a formal “vous” — and told him to “shut your face”

Me thinks this was a set-up. Interesting that it was all caught on film, and that the "youth" was very polite.

[stevio]

So what's the french word for, "f****d up"?

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First boy: “You (Vous) tell us to ‘shut your face’ and we haven’t done anything, Monsieur”

Policeman: “You want me to take you into an electricity sub-station?” (where two teenagers were electrocuted)

First boy: “Sorry Monsieur, you are being rude and I haven’t spoken to you, M’sieur”

Policeman: “In that case don’t talk. We’re telling you to get back, so get back”

First boy: “Listen Monsieur, we are using ‘vous’ with you but you and your colleague are using ‘tu’ with us. We are respectful . . .”

This reads like bad Sartre. Keep going for another one hundred pages and it could win a Pulitzer; When Frogs Bicker, a new novel by Monsieur Le Rube.