France Mobilizes 40000 Officers to Quell Violence as Teens Death Sparks Outrage

The French government announced on June 29 that 40,000 police officers will be deployed across the country after rioters caused severe damage to public property amid widespread outrage over the deadly police shooting of a teenage boy. The unrest in the country comes after 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead by a police officer during a traffic stop in Nanterre, just outside Paris, on Tuesday. The deadly encounter was captured on video. After a crisis meeting early on Thursday, France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters that the “professionals of disorder should go home.” He confirmed that policing will be more than quadrupled—from 9,000 officers to 40,000. In Paris alone, the number of officers deployed will be more than doubled....