17-yo’s killing by French cop rips open racial wounds

The French teen, identified only as Nahel, was shot during a traffic stop Tuesday in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.

PARIS (AP) — “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”: The lofty ideals to which France has long aspired are embossed on coins and carved above school doors across the land. Yet they are the polar opposite of what some French people who are Black or brown saw in a shocking video of a police officer shooting and  today!

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