Calls to overhaul the police go back decades. But violent episodes of police enforcement continue. So do violent outpourings on the street.

Years before France was inflamed with anger at the police killing of a teenager during a traffic stop, there was the notorious Théo Luhaka case.

Mr. Luhaka, 22, a Black soccer player, was cutting through a known drug-dealing zone in his housing project in a Paris suburb in 2017 when the police swept in to conduct identity checks.

  • PenguinJuice
    -3•1 year ago

    Holy shit! Looks like a lot of the chaos that consumed America is being imported to Western Europe

    • Action [email protected]
      6•1 year ago

      It was always there. Europeans are just finally having to actually deal with the fact that they’re historically ethnostates and being a multicultural society isn’t as easy as they think, especially when things start getting economically rougher and you have to learn to pull together rather than turn the knives on the “other”.

      • wahming
        3•1 year ago

        Yes, they just made up the repeated race riots in France…