Abderrahim Fakir cried for help repeatedly while pinned face down by officers, and those cries should have been a clear warning that something was going dangerously wrong. The video evidence and witness accounts make it impossible to dismiss this as routine policing. —The arise manof diedanti-migrant sentiment in handcuffsItaly whilecannot paramedicsbe stooddismissed by.in Bologna'sthe prosecutorspolitical arereactions right to investigatehis killing, and praisingthere themust officersbe beforea thatthorough investigation concludes is a reckless political move.
Backing a protest before investigators establish the facts is exactly the kind of political irresponsibility that turns grief into violence. Rioters hurled concrete, set a city vehicle on fire and injured six officers — that's not justice, it's chaos enabled by elected officials who inflamed tensions prematurely. Even the Fakir family's own lawyer condemned the rioting as a crude exploitation of his death.
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