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French authorities ban protest against police violence in Paris

www.france24.com French authorities ban protest against police violence in Paris

French authorities confirmed that a protest against police violence set to take place in Paris on Saturday could not go ahead due to police shortages. NGOs say the ban signals a “more and more repressive”…

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If there's one thing that has proven to stop protests, it's laws.
Maybe the cops should try not being violent.
- Woah now, let's not get too crazy with our solutions /s
- But the only tool they have is a hammer.
  
  *gun
  
  Oh wait, that's the U.S.
Surely this will stop them this time for really real
"You can't protest agains police violence because we don't have enough police officers". I'm sure that will stop them
- It almost seems like a trap, they are all but saying “please stop protesting we can’t take it any more”, a protest becomes a coup/revolution if the authorities refuse to concede to the demands and are overwhelmed by the protesters
Well the protestors will have to stop now that they aren't allowed to protest
I wish the French people a very pleasant Sixth Republic
- Lmk when they post a guillotine GoFundMe
  
  I left Facebook when any post containing a reference to guillotine got you jail time.
  
  A week later I was like wtf! was I don't there?!
- May the North Africans lead the revolution
So sixth republic when?
People protesting: no problem

People protesting and then certain groups “joining” them and burning cars and breaking windows requires a police presence.

Stop burning shit.

And yeah it won’t stop the protest from happening just because the French authorities banned the protest. Probably a few people will get arrested though.
- Ever hear the term "Agent provocateur"?
  
  Yes I have and that was basically the point of my comment.
  
  It isn’t the protestors burning shit it’s other bad actors. But whether it’s the protestors burning stuff or the other bad actors is really irrelevant. Either way stuff is getting damaged so there needs to be a police presence.
- Blame the victim.
  
  It's such a common maneuver when you want to undermine a person or a movement's legitimacy that we even gave it a name.
  
  In the United States MLK talked about this in so many words. He described perfectly how many people will say that they agree with your goals but not with your methods. And if you were to ask what their methods are, it would involve waiting. The problem with that is that waiting doesn't fix anything.
  
  Where was I blaming the victim?
  
  I openly said it isn’t the protestors burning shit.
  
  The other victim would be the owners of the cars and businesses… how am I blaming them?
La police est 💩💩
LOL, clowns.
Oh boy that's going to go over well
So we are commanding you not to protest police, also we don't have enough police to enforce our command.

We know you're upset with the police but don't come into our police-free zone. Pretty please.

Longer I think about this the funnier it gets.
The French right now.
French authorities confirmed that a protest against police violence set to take place in Paris on Saturday could not go ahead due to police shortages.

"We don't have enough cops to commit violence on everyone protesting so we have cancelled the protest."

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