A week of rioting, looting, violence and unrest have rocked the French Fifth Republic. The police are overwhelmed, the public is outraged, speeches calling for a nationalist response are being made in the French National Assembly, and a massive outpouring of support for those police has been a method by which native Frenchmen have protested what is happening in their country.
For a brief bit of background, the rioting started after the death of a 17 year old racially foreign teenager, Nahel Merzouk. Who after an entire adolescence of violent and petty crime finally met an unfortunate, though seemingly inevitable end at the hands of the very police he so hated.