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the hello, i'm manila chan you are tuned into modus operandi. it's being compared to america as b o. m riots of 2020 france seeing weeks of protest, riots and looting following the police, shooting death of an ethnic algerian team today will explore how the death of now more zoom spark nationwide unrest and a difficult conversation about race and equality and power in france. all right, let's get into the m o. the

17 year old nile mercy. a delivery driver was pulled over by french national police in the parish suburb of montana on june 27th. it's unclear to outside observers what actually happened when police 1st approached his vehicle. but within moments the teen attempted to flee the scene. that's when one of the officers opened fire as the boy drove away. the end result, we know was that now tragically died. he's the 3rd person to be killed in france thus far by police. in 2022 fresh saw 13 people fatally shot by fresh police who didn't comply during traffic stop. but for some reason, now, death was the final straw. for more than a week, cities, suburbs, and even the french countryside burned cars, buildings you name it. thousands of arrests, millions upon millions of dollars worth of goods eluded or vandalized. communities

of color in france had enough to discuss the underlying long simmering tensions between minority groups and the french power leads to well talk to tad wrong, tad is a syndicated columnist cartoonist radio talk show host an author of many books most relevant to this matter. a book called to afghanistan and back. ted rall, thank you for joining us. full disclosure. ted, as my friend and co host of the sputnik radio show called the final countdown. so i just got to put that out there. but that's not why i asked to, to join us on this topic. 10 happens to be a dual citizen, french american, or american french not sure. and which order or if it matters, he can clarify. but because of his dual citizen status, frances, his maternal homeland, the events unfolding, their hip, literally close to home for tad. so tad, as we witnessed the rioting, the looting,

the burning of communities all surrounding paris and beyond. what goes through your mind? what's your analysis of those events? well, a lot of americans are sort of asking, what's wrong with france? why are they so crazy? you know, how did things become so dysfunctional there? and i'm kind of reminded of a very famous episode between 0 and his good friend ralph waldo emerson. one of them was in prison for civil disobedience, or i should say in jail. and the other one came to visit him and said, my good friend, what are you doing there in prison? and the other one said, my good friend, what are you doing out? they're not in prison. and i think that's sort of the attitude that the french would have about americans. we have some of the social and political and economic skills that are afflicting us, including a continuing problem with police brutality often racially inflected. that why they

might ask, why are we not out in the streets? why are cities in america? not burning? and of course, obviously we did have a little bit of that during 2020 during the b o m protests. but for the most part, americans are a quiet lot. we haven't really had a major protest movement in this country since the early 19 seventy's half a century ago. so we are a, a very like switzerland here. we're not really doing anything. and the french have a long tradition of agitation and reaction to injustice. and so the background here is it's been a long time coming. this is not simply a case of some trigger happy cops who pulled over a 17 year old kid driving without a driver's license. in the suburbs, who got nervous and shot him as he tried to get away. this is the latest chapter, the latest episode, the latest flash point in a long standing problem in france,

where the, this national police, something we do not have here in the united states, the trolls particularly minority areas, an error of areas as though they are occupied church for they are they, they roll into town, they set up checkpoints, they asked they demand the ideas in what we would call stop and risk. they harass people. the things that just don't happen if you're in the white catholic areas of france. if you as a tourist to go to paris, you're never going to be asked for your id. the thing is a fast. everyone is issued a national id card. i have one and you can be asked by any government or from a police official at any time to present your id card and it's against the law not to have it. if you as a tourist, a white tourist, or walk you around in paris or more, say on these,

you're never going to be approached by the police. even if they don't know that you're not french, they're never gonna ask you because they don't do that there. but the national police, as a very dark racist far right, political background, it goes back to the nazi occupation of france, which took place between 19401944. at that time, france was divided into 2 zones, directly occupied zone by nazi germany. in the north and including paris and then an area that probably most listeners are viewers are aware of called vc, france, which was run by a collaboration is pro nazi puppet regime headed by the french general. only feeling fit to fit time formed the national police in 1941 to supplement and over and over. storm. go over the heads of the john down marie, there's own towns are basically french means y'all is person elm is arm is gun. so

it literally means gun person, that's your local cost is yours. on down, they have affiliation in the local community. they know people. they're not nearly as likely to be involved in this kind of aggressive leasing as the police not to not the police not, you know, it was originally known as the siri tech. when they were founded by fit, tap and they, the french in my view, wrongly kept a lot of vc institutions at the end of 1944 after liberation under charles to call . and one of the institutions that they kept was the national police. and this a way that trump kept the space force recertified and kept trump states baseboards . so it's basically that seems sort of thing. uh they go and travel wherever they want. they don't pay attention to the local police vision on downs. they set up checkpoints, they harass local kids in particular, and there's really no one in france, even among white people who don't know,

or at least indirectly have some kind of story of police brutality involving the, the police not to not, i mean, you know, here there's that statement a, c, a, b, all cops or bastards. well, i'll police nice to now are bastards. and so this was only a matter of time. what you're seeing here is, this is just a bridge too far. it was caught on video, the cost line about what happened. they tried to get out of it and we use a lot of it, but they couldn't. it's less. i think this is less of a, george floyd and more of a rodney key moment when it comes to french politics in that. this is the 1st time that the cops were caught, debt to right. and the authorities don't really know what to do about it. present as an emmanuel macro has pretty much the admitted that this shouldn't have happened . the interior minister has set up a hard line and has demanded

a harsh prison sentences for anybody caught learning or writing. but bottom line is, this was to be expected. this could easily have happened 2 years ago, and it is, it's the result of a years of pent up anger in the neighborhood. this teenager, now mercer is from you, said, is largely on jill algerian or of north african immigrants. the boy's death at the hands of national police seems to expose these seats racial, divides in france. can you give us some modern historical context around this? i mean, does any of this have to do with the french colonial past? you know french, frances colonial past is front and center when it comes to all this. i mean, today, france is just another country in europe and the secondary partner to germany in

the you. but of course, a 100 years ago, france had a fast empire that circled the globe and rivaled the u. k. as in terms of the sun, never setting this time, this case on the french empire of france, possessed colonies around the world still does to the places like martinique and quite a loop. in the current in the caribbean, they have a couple of islands off the coast of new finland, canada, um spanish sac. yeah. i certainly can. all. uh they have um the either you know, in the middle of the indian ocean you have a cottage on yeah. in uh, in also in the pacific. uh and other uh, many counties they had best swabs of africa, particularly north of africa. um the north many of the air of the uh, air of, uh, sort of, uh sahara and countries were part of the french dominion morocco, algeria, tunisia, and so on. and so uh,

what happened here uh, definitely relates to the, um, after frances colonial um, aspirations began to evaporate with its defeat in the alger in independence struggle in the early 19 sixties. and by the way, that's really beautifully documented in a sort of pseudo documentary, the so called the battle of algiers that i would strongly recommend when a lot of awards and after 911. in fact, it became required viewing among pentagon planners looking into how they were going to occupy and deal with resistance movements in afghanistan and iraq. but anyway, um, so this kid, uh, he was more how basically have rock and half out here and, and there were old, there are a lot of people of that background who came here particularly after the altieri and civil conflict, made it very unpleasant to live in places like that,

some of them were political refugees. the point is that in many cases they were allowed to, to come to france quite easily. sometimes they came on to his visa, sometimes they were actual citizens legal status various tremendously. so for example, algeria was considered not just economy out, syria was legally part of france. the same way that alaska and hawaii are part of the united states. it was a full french call through mod department, which is like a product. and basically, um, and there were a lot of white people calling us settlers. they called them the p and well the, the black sea because of the soil about syria. and they lived there tons by the 10s of thousands there. and they consider themselves fully out here in any way this colonial legacy has left and emphatically enriched france with a lot of people, a move from the background. and who came from these former french colonies. it

makes for a better variety of food and culture. it makes friends a far more interesting place than they used to be before world war 2. but the problem is there are racial tensions. france views itself, primarily. 1 a french catholic country, this is kind of a, which is brew of a special kind of racism. and the, it's kind of the contempt of this nation state and sort of old generation white french people to look down on anybody who's got darker skin or who's not catholic by culture. and, and so the police not, you know, even though as the government will point out, they're more diverse. they still in the, they've heard of this culture in their ranks. that they view for people with dark skin for the people as being trouble as being people who are really to play

about the room coming up next, a manual ma crown on the ropes. despite his recent re election, the french president is put in a tough spot, and his power is put to the test in the wake of this police shooting. we'll discuss it when we return with ted rall sit tight. the m o will be right back. the,

to take a fresh look around as a life kaleidoscopic isn't just a shifted reality distortion by power to division with no real live indians. fixtures, design to simplify will confuse really once a better wills, and is it just as it shows you fractured images, present it is, but can you see through their illusions, going underground? can the welcome back to the m. o. i'm a know a chan. despite a manual ma cross only recently winning his re election in 2022, this late a spade a violent protest could serve as a tipping point in his legacy as president. these riots weakening his party and

strengthening opposition, but perhaps not in the direction you might spake. pad raul is back with us. thank you for sticking around, tad. so let's talk about what a manual my phone is doing about this. i mean, frances burning. i've seen numerous videos online of home giant buildings set a blaze by rioters. some have made comparisons to americas george floyd protest and the bill m riots of 2020. are they really comparable? i mean, you had mentioned rodney king, how is the french president responding to these violent apps a? well, the french president is between a rock and a hard place because of what happened earlier this year. people are wondering whether these protests are related in any way to the yellow, best protests. so few years ago, they've been ongoing, as well as the wide spread protests over his decides. decision to unilaterally

increase the retirement age and perhaps from 62 to 64 without consulting parliament . and there is, there is a relationship, but it's not the relationship isn't. hey, whenever we're mad, we take to the streets and throw molotov cocktails of the cops. the relationship is that the police not to not was used in order to counteract and suppress the yellow of absence, as well as the anti pension protests. and because of that now, and there's shown down or not have not really been a desirous or as cooperative in terms of defending the states for arguments in that same way. in this particular case, you have a different situation, which is my call has some sympathy for the protests against police violence you did not approve and very quickly a pro set issue. the statement that the not having meals loop should not have met

his end of this way. he disapproved of it. and i think if he didn't already, oh, shit, a favor to the police task. so now if he wasn't literally barely hanging on to power because of their ability to run interference for the states unpopularity in the streets of paris and other major cities, they, he could, he would be free to uh, ship this situation now. but as of this, he can only really issue half hearted, feeble, state ones that are like these. you know, this is terrible. stop. i wish this wasn't happening. he can't issue a full throated condemnation of a national police because if he did were to do so, the cost would probably stands down much in the way that we're seeing in the united states with the cops and standing down after the viola and protest and that the

best, the police movement, even though the police really didn't get divested anywhere of note, they are still so mad about it that they kind of refused to turn up to fight real crime. and that's why do you see a lot of scenes of chaos in inner cities in san francisco, l a in new york and other places like that. so he's, you know, macro is looking at that and thinking, okay, if i come out against the national police, i'm going to have the same problem. and what are they going to, what am i going to do? the next time the, the anti enter, the pension age increased protesters or some other protest movements gets out of control. the he was just re elected. but it's only because the french voted against montgomery look at. that is not because they voted for him. he admitted that he knows that he's a very, very weak guy for a guy who has a controlling. he controls the parliament and he, uh,

he was recently re elected. you would think that he would have considerable, our, the truth is this president is on the ropes and he could go. and he said, frank, there's no stranger to protest pre colvin. we saw a ongoing yellow bass protest for more than a year. we've seen labor protests recently or retirement age pro, tests the french, no protesting, especially when they feel authority has gone too far. but when it comes to these immigrant issues, if we look at the money crowd, funding sites seem to imply that french citizens are actually favoring the cop who shots. now, the officer has already in guard over a $1000000.00 for his defense fund, while niles family is that a fraction of that is growing, but it's still a fraction. is it more of a divide similar to those that we have here, state sides where communities of color tend to be economically disadvantaged.

therefore they have less to give to nails, family and then, you know, the privilege whites of france have more wealth. so they're donating to the cops. i mean, can this be explained that neatly to oh, i think it's, i mean, yes and no. i mean, i don't want to overstate the progressive or left to the nature of french politics because as the national police reflects in the popularity of marie le pound reflects, clearly there is a, for there is a right we a very strong right. we orientation tendency also within french politics and it's been always been a deeply polarized country. you know, it's similar to here. it's uh, the, the rural areas are more conservative, the urban areas are more left. and you do, if you're going to sort of try to do the rough, like let's see, who is more popular by looking at who's go find to be, is more popular. you're the,

i don't think that's a very useful way to look at it because the people who are going to support the french cop are going to necessarily be older, more conservative and more rural and with more access to money. and uh, and, and view that as their way to, to express themselves. they're not going to go out the counter pro justin throw molotov cocktails back at the inside police protesters. and at the same time, you're not going to go into um, you know, that, but the, the pro or the, i should say, the pro not have the protesters. they are going to view, donating as less useful. but going out and agitating and the street not to mention they're less able to do so because as you kind of indicated and alluded to their manella, they are a, they're, they're, they're more, they're younger, the average age of someone arrested was 14 to 18. they're not, they don't have

a lot of money to give away. and a lot of them are people of color, so they tend to have smaller incomes and they're less able to afford it. i mean, it's very analogous, i think, to some way shocking depths of joy nearly by the former us marine daniel penny in new york city, where there were rival go fun bees. and daniel penny did very, very well. i think he got more money if memory serves than his victim. jordan nearly hit his obviously george meal east at the historic meal, his family. and there's a um, tennessee, you say, well that means the police officer is getting more sympathy. but i think that's not quite the way it is. i think it's just the, the money is talking towards the forces of reaction because that's the way the class to the division exists. now last on the political front, there has been thousands of arrests,

millions and millions of dollars worth of stuff loot in vandalized torch. but there seems to be one victor here, and that's maureen le pen. you've mentioned her already. and her far right circles . my call is on the ropes, he's a lame duck president. he's got the olympics coming up next summer. how's this pan out for the political circles in france as well? everything in politics comes down to timing. if the left, if there were an election held today, if uh, my home were to step down right now and the new uh election were i think the election would be held either a month or 2 is the way this would work. do there's a short campaign period in france that's permitted. uh you would be, uh, i would be hard to imagine. well, the phrase would come down to strongly for me and i'll show who is basically sort of a french bernie sanders plus plus versus marine the pen. and probably the pen

when, when, although middle shaw would probably come close the hall, the the center has been completely gutted and hollowed out. but of course, the election might not be tomorrow or in 2 months. the election, but more likely be later on. if it's on the schedule will be 4 years from now, and who knows where it will be by then who the, we probably will have a completely different set of political parties. i mean, french politics has their party exchange lots and they become increasingly personalized. we used to have a system situation in france that resembled the united states, where you have for example, the socialist party had a number of candidates that were prominent, including of course, false, why meteor all was like 1981 if memory serves. and the but, and then you'd have other routes like the rally for the republic and then they would have their own candidates. now like with someone like micro, he had his own personal party basically. and he cobbled together

a coalition with other sort of personal parties. so there's not a lot of continuity, not to mention, to really complicate things. they have, these alliances will be sort of the parties of elections for the left and elections for the right 1st. and then they, sometimes they do that. sometimes they don't do that little tons party is the national rally, which is kind of an error to the old national front, which was her father's orientation. and so she provides some continuity here. it's all a way of saying, look, it's complicated, even though it's like anything could happen if you had an election held right now. marie le pen wins. so maria, so time is on marina pence side if there's not much of it left. but if, let's just say micro holds on for another year, who knows? it could some mental shows game so, so there's never discount either the far left or the far right when it comes to french politics. because anything can happen,

especially now it's streamlined volatile situation. even before all of these protests a ted rall, syndicated columnist, cartoonist and officer of to afghanistan and back. thank you so much for sharing your analysis with us. very sad situation there in france, that is going to do it for today's episode of modus operandi in the show that digs deep into foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your host miller chan. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next time to figure out the m o. the . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is on a fence. very dramatic. the only personally i'm going to resist,

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