Hi, I am an African-American woman living in France since 2011. I find myself being harassed and abused by the French police in the city where I live. For some reason, they hate me intensely and are constantly acting on their hate. They refuse to take my complaints no matter how awful the crime committed against me. They visit me every day to terrorize and worry me, unconnected to any crime or complaint. Sometimes they come in vast numbers, dressed up in riot gear. Two weeks ago, they launched a SWAT attack on my apartment, with more than 40 officers laying siege. Two days later they ambushed me and illegally seized my two dogs without a court order, without a judge involved. I need the two dogs for mental health and security reasons. They have done a huge number of things against me, from holding me hostage in my apartment for hours, chasing me, threatening me with serious violence and bodily harm, insulting me, demeaning, mocking, disgracing me to sending 40-strong SWAT teams to lay siege to my apartment over a tiny affair such as carrying my dog wrong. I’ve run out of money and I am trapped here. I’m terrorized that the French police will accidentally/intentionally kill me as I am a very small woman and many of them have expressed intense rage against me and a desire to fight me. They try to provoke me by calling me stupid, imbecile, clueless, N*****, saying they know that’s how Black people are treated in America. Please don’t tell me to go to the garbage American Embassy in Paris, the personnel are very hostile and are only nationalized French people or Philippinos anyway. The embassy offered me a $700 loan against surrendering my passport to them. What good is $700 in NYC (my city of origin)? I would be immediately homeless and not likely to recover from PTSD as a homeless person. Does anyone have any light to shed on this situation? It makes no sense that the French police are treating me like this. They have destroyed my life and now I’m deeply traumatized, suffering from PTSD and permanent insomnia. I’ve also gotten physically sick (heart, lungs, and kidneys) because of all this horror and misery they are inflicting on me, and have not been working recently. I hate to say this, and I don’t say it lightly - it appears as the police here are dangerous, deranged, lawless psychopaths. They are above the law and will never be disciplined. What do you think I should do? Any helpful comment or advice would be appreciated. If you don’t have any insight please pass it along to someone you know who does.

PS:

I have written the mayor 13 times.

I have written the District Attorney around 60 times.

I have met with the Defender of rights

I have met with legal aid counselors from numerous charitable organizations

I have called the domestic abuse hotline, the human trafficking hotline, and the violence against women hotline (half the time these fake lines don't even work)

I’ve joined the sub Reddit a few months back as I was told by a Mod I needed to be an older Reddit age to be CC approved. I’m curious as to why the Mods decided to private the sub Reddit to only CC verified accounts today?! It literally came out of no where. 😩

Reading this post (https://old.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/qn0syt/framing/) is just making me cry. I'd like to say not all white people are like this, but obviously that's just empty words. Far too many white people are like this, and it's a problem that doesn't seem to be going away ever. I don't know what to do about anything. But I want to say that I'm sorry you have to go through this bullshit just because of the way you were born.

--white guy trying to be better than this

If its all country club, this is officially no longer a public forum.

I'm the senior mod of r/grassroots. It's been sitting, mostly unused. I'd like to donate it to the NAACP or a like-minded organization that is pursuing social change.

I don't have the largest social media presence. I'd really appreciate any tips or help in outreach.

Help me connect. Please share with anyone you can think of or any groups that are helping inform, assemble, educate, share resources, calling for justice, or fighting the political repression.

From a police community and chief who understands and walks with protestors to a police form that is a gang who is ready to fight to the death.

We need to pay attention to which communities handle this with understanding and which don’t and we need to target major change in the ones with a corrupt force.

You cannot have an energy like this unless it’s top to bottom and any city that doesn’t have a supportive police force at these times needs to be gutted and replaced with outside police from good areas and have a ton of community outreach and a focus* on rebuilding.

I am just thinking about how to move forward and accomplish real change from this. We are seeing clearly where we have the most fucked up and violent police. We need to fight most in those communities.

I am white. I say they not as a statement of superiority, nor as one of inferiority, simply as one of fact. Obviously, I do not understand the true nature of what black people go through. Being white, I could not possiblity understand. I do however grasp at least a basic understanding of it. I also understand the shittiness of humanity at large. How humans are intrinsically flawed, Including myself. There are clearly deep issues with out society. And I don't know what to do. I know what is wrong, I think it is wrong, and I don't know what I can do.

I know this is the wrong place to post this. I expect this to be removed. I simply hope I gain some insight prior to that.

Slightly less broke ,check your account

pls

edit: whoops http://imgur.com/a/Q9Shqra

I think some posts we can already tell are going to get derailed before we even submit them and by the time they turn into CC threads the damage has already been done. I think it would be a good move to allow this option.

Hello /r/BlackPeopleTwitter and /r/BPTmeta!

We need your help to fight online hate!

I work with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonprofit organization that has been fighting for racial justice since 1963. As you probably (unfortunately) know, online hate has become a huge problem, especially for people of color. One-in-four African Americans and one-in-ten Latinos have been targeted for online harassment because of their race, compared with only 3% of whites. Women are targeted at double the rate of men.

One of our programs, the Stop Hate Project, seeks to combat white supremacy and other forms of hate—especially online—and to provide support to affected communities. Recently, we won a major legal case against online neo-Nazis who targeted the first black female student government president of American University.

We want to bring another case to extend existing civil rights laws to protect social media. To do that, we need to find someone who has been targeted by online hate, threats, discrimination, or harassment. As members of one of the leading communities of people of color on Reddit, we know that you are particularly at risk of becoming targets of hate, so we’re asking for your help.

If you’ve been a target of online hate, we’d like to hear about your experience. We want to learn more about the needs of the black community online, and do what we can to connect you with helpful resources. We cannot promise legal support in every instance, but our Stop Hate Project is plugged in to support, legal, and community organizations nationwide.

This is an important moment in the struggle against hate. We need your help to advance the cause of civil rights into the 21st century. Please share your stories with us at nohate@lawyerscommittee.org, find resources at www.8449nohate.org, or call us at 1-844-9-NO-HATE. We will protect your privacy and keep confidential whatever you tell us.

Sean Bickford

Legal Fellow for Privacy & Technology

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Remember those? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

(I'd verify as a pawg but I dont share pics with strangers on the internet)

The mods claimed it was an April fools joke, but then kept it in place.