other french people. so we have lots of evidence, whether it s about people being racially profiled or escalating to police killings, of which black and arab french people are the majority of those killed by police. and yet the french government itself has really met these reports and these awful incidences of harassment and police killings with denial. the denial that racism exists in france and a refusal to really do anything about it. this tide of rage has gone into a fifth night. do you think it s been exacerbated by the fact that the police lied about what happened until that incriminating video surfaced of the killing? absolutely. the impunity of the police is something that you hear community members on the ground, observers, really raising the alarm about. because the whole world knows by now that the police initially
lied about what happened. they pretended as though there was an officer in front of the car who nial was going to run over. none of that was true, and we can see that with our eyes because a bystander took a cell phone video, as has been often the case in high-profile killings conducted by the police, initiallies and fabrications are then met with the actual images. and really, without those images, it s hard to imagine the circumstances that would have resulted not just in the outrage that s occurred but also specifically an effort to hold this officer accountable. crystal, we know that the french president, emmanuel macron, he s canceled his trip to germany to deal with this crisis at home. he s walking a very fine tightrope. on the one hand offering sympathy, trying to be seen to be punishing the police officer, and yet on the other, there has