Police officers "from diversity" rebel against insults against them

The police counter-attack. In a column published by the weekly Marianne, sixty police officers " from diversity " protested this Thursday against the insults received in the recent demonstrations held in France.

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On Tuesday, a black police officer was notably attacked in Paris by participants in the demonstration in memory of Adama Traoré, a young black man who died in 2016 during an arrest. A video widely used on social networks showed the official, a member of the DOPC (direction of public order and traffic), helmeted, impassive in front of demonstrators chanting in chorus at his address: “ sold! " The man has since filed a complaint, announced Thursday the prefect of police Didier Lallement, who did the same.

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Among the signatories of the development forum, Linda Kebbab, National Delegate Unit SGP Police FO and known face of the national police in the media. The text, entitled " We, police officers from diverse backgrounds, are not" sold "," house Negroes "or" Arabs on duty " ", returns to the controversy and details the state of mind of some police recently taken to task.

" We are women and men, black, Arab, mixed race, Asian, from COM DROMs, former colonies, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, atheists, heterosexuals, homosexuals, of all philosophical or political opinions ... " announces the text. The police describe themselves as " the diversity of France that it carries in our family stories ". A patriotic plea in response to the accusations of recent protest movements: “ We reaffirm our pride in belonging to the French nation, committed to rescue and protect in this country where we were born, of which we acquired citizenship. We condemn the degrading insults on our complexions ”.

" Words too often heard in the mouths of those who also use the ugly" dirty white "insult" , add the signatories, to underline the limits of militant anti-racism and its rapid shift towards racism.

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Finally, members of the police force affirm that “ there are [ racists ] in the police ”, because “ the police are like all the strata of the society it serves ”. On the other hand, the text " refuses the assertion that" the police are racist " ". " Our National Police ," continues the text, " is the intimacy of our units and brigades where friendships are formed on our hides, but of a single color on the ground." That of our uniform: blue ”.

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