racism
Jun 30 2009, Marco Villa

France’s Le Monde reports that French police routinely practice racist identity checks.

A scientific study observed French police at Paris’s Gare du Nord [Europe’s largest train station] and at Chatelet-les Halles station between October 2007 and...

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