For as long as we have had police, we have had police violence, it's nothing new, it's just that the public are now more able to record it, and spread far and wide, photos and videos of that violence. This in turn raises the public anger and leads to much larger protests against this whole rotten system. The powers that be, who have no intentions of curbing that violence against the public, are looking around of ways and means of stopping the spread of the images.
France has come up with what it believes is a great idea, make it illegal to film/photograph police on duty. Certainly a great idea to blind the public to the truth, but hardly a democratic and fair way to deal with the situation of police violence. Of course the good people of France are not idiots and can see through this autocratic measure to curtail, even more, what freedoms they have.
So for weeks now the people from that patch on the planet, have been taking to the streets in their thousands and facing off the violent police. They know of the violence, the feel the violence on a daily basis, and they are determined that it will be recorded and made public.
This new law does not just hamstring the general public, but obviously journalist, and observers are also covered by this, nothing short of, fascist law. It is always the only direction states can take, greater restrictions on the public, greater control of the public, a subservient public is necessary for the state's survival. That's why it is important for us not to be submissive, not to yield their desire to strangle the public from thinking for themselves, we must continually circulate what we consider important, and take what action we think is necessary, to right the wrongs in society.
France has come up with what it believes is a great idea, make it illegal to film/photograph police on duty. Certainly a great idea to blind the public to the truth, but hardly a democratic and fair way to deal with the situation of police violence. Of course the good people of France are not idiots and can see through this autocratic measure to curtail, even more, what freedoms they have.
So for weeks now the people from that patch on the planet, have been taking to the streets in their thousands and facing off the violent police. They know of the violence, the feel the violence on a daily basis, and they are determined that it will be recorded and made public.
This new law does not just hamstring the general public, but obviously journalist, and observers are also covered by this, nothing short of, fascist law. It is always the only direction states can take, greater restrictions on the public, greater control of the public, a subservient public is necessary for the state's survival. That's why it is important for us not to be submissive, not to yield their desire to strangle the public from thinking for themselves, we must continually circulate what we consider important, and take what action we think is necessary, to right the wrongs in society.
Thousands of people across France have protested against a proposed security bill that would make it more difficult to film police officers. Media freedom and human rights groups have led protests for weeks to have the government scrap or revise a bill that would restrict the filming of police, saying it would make it harder to prosecute cases of abuse.
The interior ministry said about 52,350 people demonstrated around France, including 5,000 in Paris. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said at least 64 people had been arrested across the country and eight police officers were injured. In the western city of Nantes, two riot police were injured, one of them with a Molotov cocktail, French media reported. In a tweet, Darmanin praised the police for facing down “very violent individuals”.
In the capital Paris, protesters on Saturday set fire to several cars, pillaged a bank and tossed objects at police – the second consecutive weekend of violent protests against the draft bill. French police had been deployed to avert trouble after violent clashes erupted during the demonstration in Paris a week ago that saw dozens wounded. The new clashes came after Macron gave a much-anticipated interview on Friday to Brut, a video-based news portal aimed at young people.
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