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French police are upset at how their own minister turned on them in the wake of the Adama Traore killing (who unlike Floyd was a real and active POS).
Protesting here are some police playing the song of a kiddie show (the bisounours in French / Care bears in English) on their loudspeakers. A bisounours world is in French popular culture a world where there are only good and nice people.
Hilarious, even people on the street are laughing.
And there is an interesting parallel to make, I think, with what is happening in the US.
Fearing it would set fire to the suburbs and such, the authorities more or less told the cops to stand down regarding the Chechens vs Algerians kerfuffle, while happily cracking down on nurses.
Anyway, I digress, stand down not to anger communities known for their unruliness.
Meanwhile in the US, though the police is under heavy scrutiny, the general climate is very tense, 6 (down to now 3) blocks of Seattle seceded, police reforms, and so on... cops are still "doing their job" as usual.
Not saying their job is to shoot people and the like, but it seems there isn't that overblown "let us all walk on very thin eggshells" approach adopted by France.