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ITYM Freedom Roast
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Mom saw one that said
Pipers Do It With Amazing Grace
She said the driver was a gorgeous gray-haired chap, but he was going so damn fast, even she couldn’t catch up to him and ask for a date.
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That was doing the rounds on Reddit a while back. Looks like Aphex Twin
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Looks like they haven’t met the Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité yet.
And the Gendarmerie is a branch of the French Armed Forces.
Not that any of this would stop the French from “protesting like that”.
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Apples to oranges?
They’re talking about “local police,” not say, the National Guard.
A look here suggests that local French police are not “militarized” nearly to the extent that the US police are.
And,
Concerns about the militarization of police have been raised by both ends of the political spectrum in the United States, with both the libertarian Cato Institute[14] and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)[15] voicing criticisms of the practice. The Fraternal Order of Police has spoken out in favor of equipping law enforcement officers with military equipment, claiming that it increases the officers’ safety and enables them to protect members of the public and other first responders (e.g., firefighters and emergency medical services personnel).[16] However, a 2017 study showed that police forces which received military equipment were more likely to have violent encounters with the public, regardless of local crime rates.[17] A 2018 study found that militarized police units in the United States were more frequently deployed to communities with large shares of African-Americans, even after controlling for local crime rates.[18]
While, as that entry says, “Many countries also have at least one gendarmerie, which is a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population,” the US has a specific and widely notorious tendency to spend a lot of money militarizing local police, an often racist phenomenon which itself inspires fear in potential protesters.
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