United by a desire to smash institutional racism, US and French protestors find common cause
that Traore had died due to sickle cell disease, which reduces oxygen delivered to the body and mainly affects Black people.
Yesterday’s massive protests in Paris and other cities in France, have come at a time that threatens a “When the coronavirus pandemic hit France earlier this year, it struck France’s ethnic minorities on two levels: first, they tried to keep themselves safe from the virus and secondly, from the police.
“The confinement was ordered in a rush and in a highly volatile social situation. It was ordered in the aftermath of the Yellow Vest movement and a series of social protests led by doctors, nurses and teachers,” says Yasser Louati, a French human rights activist leading the NGO ‘Committee for Justice & Liberties For All’.
Videos on social media showed police officers aware of white people breaking lockdown rules, while “for young Black people and Arabs in France, the police showed the utmost brutality even in cases where people were outside to buy their groceries or to take the trash out.” “Lots of people from the communities of colour in the working-class neighbourhoods are afraid of the police,” said Daif adding “it’s hard for us. It’s hard to trust them.”in April of this year captured the moment: two police officers can be heard racially insulting a North African man who had been pulled out of the river, with one of the officials suggesting they should have let him drown.
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