“With this level of tension, it would take one small over-reaction from a police-officer to leave a rioter dead or injured. And then what?”
Then there are more riots, and you kill more of the rioters until they get the point that rioting is not acceptable and will be met with overwhelming deadly force.
Won’t happen though (yet). Instead we’ll see more hand wringing, appeasement, and weakness, which will inevitably lead to worse riots until real force is applied. Not doubting Sarko’s resolve here, but the whole culture has to move, and even Sarko can’t do that overnight...
Makes sense..