France has seen some ripples from the situation in the US : A few days ago thousands demonstrated -despite the authorities denying the permit because of the "public health situation"- in front of the Paris court against police brutality (specifically the death of Adama Traoré in 2016, who was under duress of a knee-hold while being arrested, complained he had difficulty to breathe, was apparently feeling ill as he was brought to the Gendarmerie barracks and died on the premises.). Some more protests happened today and yesterday.
A private Facebook group for cops (or alleged/posing) with thousands of members was outed for some of the racist shit posted in there by some. Likewise French German broadcast station Arte had an investigation about how the colleagues of a black cop were talking about him in a private social media group and it was some nasty general and individual racist shit. Not that it would make it any better really but they didn't even extend the "one of the good ones" deflection to him.
And some of you probably remember that during the Yellow Vest movement, French police went hogwild with "flashballs" and maimed several dozen people (eyes, hands, heads...) in the space of a year.
There's maybe, more or less, a dozen people "only" per year killed as a result of law enforcement as far as I can tell. But while the US is just off the charts with how gung-ho the cops get, it's really more or less the same issues on a smaller scale.
I mentioned it a couple of times but there's been a clear, felt and factual, regression in how French police handle protests since the early aughts towards a more confrontational, repressive method too.
