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\nCops in the French capital have held a protest rally to denounce President Emmanuel Macron after he called for sweeping police reforms, with his party moving to rewrite a hot-button security bill protecting officers\u2019 identities.
\nThe officers were seen demonstrating in the streets of Paris on Monday night in footage captured by RT\u2019s video agency, Ruptly, some protesting in uniforms and from emergency vehicles, their flashing blue lights illuminating the city\u2019s iconic Place de l\u2019Etoile.
\n\u201cI speak on behalf of the colleagues who are behind me, who suffer every day outside, who are molested, burned, abused, harassed,\u201d one officer told Ruptly, demanding that police receive \u201csupport\u201d from the government.
\nThe protest comes as Macron increasingly takes aim at French policing, vowing to \u201cpersonally intervene\u201d in the matter earlier this month after a pair of controversial video clips emerged showing officers beating up suspects. In a letter to a national police union last week, the president vowed a series of reforms in seven areas, including police training, supervision, resources, video footage of interventions, inspections, and relations with the wider population.
\nMacron\u2019s party, La Republique En Marche, has also drawn the ire of law enforcement after it pledged to partially rewrite a controversial security bill, one provision of which bars citizens from filming on-duty officers and posting the images online with \u201cintent to harm.\u201d Critics of the bill, which was recently adopted by the lower house of parliament, have staged their own protests over the measure for three consecutive weeks, some arguing it could criminalize journalists seeking to document police brutality.
\nMonday night\u2019s police protest is not the first of its kind in the French capital in recent days, with officers staging another demonstration last Friday.
\nAccording to a local journalist, the previous protest came after Macron gave an extended interview to French video platform Brut, where he said non-whites are \u201cmore likely to get checked by the police,\u201d among other criticisms of law enforcement during the two-hour-plus sit-down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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