Police had initially reported that the teenager had threatened to run officers over, but a video that circulated on social media contradicted this claim. The video shows two police officers standing beside Nael’s stopped car, when a voice says “You are going to get a bullet in the head.” Nael appears to start to drive off, upon which one of the officers shoots him point blank in the head.

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    • VILenin [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I think they’ll instead be saying “he was no angel”

  • TheCaconym [any]
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    1 year ago

    For once the video is so bad (that along with a frightening increase in the regularity of such cops executions here) that even the current gov is vaguely trying to suggest publicly the cops were in the wrong. They're afraid; it's really the last straw for a lot of people. Their position, unsurprisingly, is making the insane cop unions react in a truly despicable way.

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  • mechwarrior2 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    videos -

    witness to the killing (CW) https://files.catbox.moe/agf5px.mp4

    emt going off on the killer, was later arrested for "incitement" https://files.catbox.moe/2y9f5r.mp4

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      That clip of the EMT, wow. It's kinda cathartic to see someone be so appropriately outraged, someone who knows that we're all supposed to look out for each other and who is in shock and disbelief at such disregard of human life.

      I really think this idea that as humans, as people, we're supposed to be a community that looks out for each other, this basic empathy for everyone around you regardless of personal relationships of material interests, is one of the biggest things that capitalism is taking away from us.

      We're not supposed to live in a rat race. Capitalism has created an environment where for one to succeed, others must fail, where nobody will ever give you anything for free and everybody is a potential competitor. We're the most social, most collaborative species on the planet, there's a reason solitary confinement is considered literal torture.

      And yet, under capitalism, the most sociopathic, most self-serving monsters who are the most willing to fuck over, exploit and abuse others are glorified and mythologized. Only a deeply diseased society could have so many people unironically idolizing Jordan fucking Belfort.

      It's my leading theory that this erosion of the collective in favor of hyper-individualism where people are told that nobody is on your side, nobody will ever help you and nobody owes you anything, that this is one of the leading causes for the US mass shooting epidemic.

      Because normal people should react like this EMT when people are randomly murdered. This is a normal, natural reaction. This is not supposed to happen. Cops who murder innocents should be screamed at by the community, they shouldn't be able to leave their homes.

      This is kinda rambly because it's 4 am but tl;dr, it's just cathartic to see someone who is still capable to feel this intensely for someone he doesn't know. Who understands just how wrong this is. Capitalism is trying to indoctrinate us into believing that caring for nobody but yourself is actually admirable and virtuous, but it's not. It's unnatural and wrong.

      • Abraxiel
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        1 year ago

        I tried automatic transcription, but it's too muddy. I think the first bit has some "you're going to see" and "he was 19, you saw it was a child."

        • TheCaconym [any]
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          1 year ago

          "You'll never feel safe anymore"; "he had a kid's face for fuck's sake"; "murderer"; "there's a hundred thousand people behind me"; those are the ones I remember. Even as a native speaker the sound sucks.

          And he was indeed detained - still is I think.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Welp, that's a straight up gang execution.

  • geikei [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Some of the vids of the protests are kinda insane even as a fellow European riotcore leftist

    https://twitter.com/MapsUkraine/status/1674158482075926528

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      1 year ago

      Warms one's heart

      The gov is shitting their pants and for tonight have deployed 40000 cops as well as our equivalent of SWAT around Paris

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Already saw libs trying to downplay the shooting, and chuds making racist remarks about migrants and diversity, all because minorities are involved in the riots. It's making my fucking blood boil. guts-rage

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    • TheCaconym [any]
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      1 year ago

      Sadly, not only do they use guns, that shithead Hollande allowed them to bring their guns home with them at the end of the day

      And then Macron did even worse and started to allow the pigs to wear their guns even when off duty

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        And then Macron did even worse and started to allow the pigs to wear their guns even when off duty

        Hard to make it more clear liberals have like 0 actual values

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Out of all the imperial core countries, France probably comes right after the US in regards to both murders by cops and police militarization. They're an army wielded against the own populace. You could ofc argue that all cops are, and you wouldn't be wrong, but with French cops, it fucking shows.

  • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    It's a war zone out there. Who would thought this would happen one day after the Moscow coup