Fakir cried for help repeatedly while pinned face down by officers, and thosethat 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 rise of anti-migrant sentiment in Italy cannotis beextremely dismissed in the political reactions to his killing, and there must be a thorough investigationdangerous.
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 — chaos enabled by elected officials who had prematurely inflamed tensions prematurely. Even the Fakir family's own lawyer condemned the rioting as a crude exploitation of his death.
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