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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

RIOTS in France: Diversity Strikes Again! | 7/5/23

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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France seems to be having its own Summer of Love, as riots continue in the capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yikes. Okay, let's just jump right into things. Despite what the progressive left in America

0:14.8

likes to tell people, no, Europe is not some utopia of democratic socialism and rainbows

0:21.2

and unicorns. Sadly, if you've been paying attention for the past week or so, France

0:25.7

right now has actually been going through what some people are even going as far as to

0:29.5

call a civil war. At the very least, it's civil unrest and a ton of violence is happening.

0:36.2

And actually looking into what started all of this unrest, it almost seems like France is

0:40.0

experiencing their own summer of love that infamously happened after George Floyd's death on

0:45.2

video went viral. You see, this all stems from the death of a 17-year-old at the hands of police,

0:48.9

which sounds very familiar if you keep up with what's happening in American politics.

0:52.8

And as this account on social media explains, protests and riots erupted across

0:56.6

multiple suburbs in Paris after police shot dead a 17-year-old teenager for allegedly not

1:01.2

stopping his car when ordered to. NLM, who was of Algerian heritage, was driving a rental car

1:06.8

early on Tuesday when he was ordered to stop by traffic police. Police initially said the

1:11.0

teen drove his car straight at them. However, a video posted on social media showed two officers

1:14.9

trying to stop the vehicle, with one pointing his weapon at the youth through the car window

1:18.9

before firing at close range as the youth attempted to drive off. Somebody in the video

1:22.6

can also be heard saying, you're going to be shot in the head before the officer open fire.

1:26.5

I have a context for those of you who haven't seen it yet. Here is the video in question. I will

1:30.8

I will say viewer discretion is advised just because obviously the context of what we're seeing

1:35.7

is pretty grim. Someone is losing their life, but don't worry if you're not a fan of anything

1:40.7

gory. There's nothing like that on the video. With that footage, there is a lot of debate over

1:51.5

what the police were justified in that shooting because it turns out that this young man,

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