In Chartres, the police symbolically place their handcuffs and armbands on the ground in protest

Without consulting the various police unions, nearly eighty officials from the Chartres police station posed symbolically on the ground, at 4 p.m., their armbands and handcuffs in front of the police station.

This collective initiative, called “interior disorder” brought together, a rare occurrence, all ranks and all units. The police thus showed their disappointment and anger at the recent remarks made by the Minister of the Interior on the police violence. One of the police officers confides: “We don’t feel supported. I have more than 20 years of career and I have never seen a minister behave this way.”

“The government has let us go,” says the boss of the police union SGP Unit

The cervical control technique

In the conversations, the officials estimate to be victims of the amalgam with the death of Georges Floyd, in the United States, deceased after having been kept on the ground 8 minutes by American police officers. His death sparked a wave of global mobilization against police violence and racism by members of the security forces. The State has thus announced that the neutralization of a suspect by the technique of “cervical control”, and not strangulation, will no longer be taught at the police academy.

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A policeman is surprised: “Well mastered, the technique makes it possible to challenge a person by surprise and put him / her on the ground quickly to handcuff, let go and put him / her up again.”

Another coward: “The de-encirclement grenade was prohibited without certain conditions, the use of the flash ball made controversy. And the taser has its limits as much as the refueling is lacking. And now, the cervical control will be prohibited. What do we have left if the person doesn’t want to comply? ”

Next to him a group of colleagues came together to denounce unanimously: “We don’t like being called racist police officers.”

Thierry Delaunay

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