In case you hadn't heard, the Parisian suburbs are burning. Now, keep in mind, Paris isn't like the Chicagoland area, as people would describe my sprawling metropolis. Paris has a dense city core, one nearly fifteen hundred years old, filled with metropolitan city dwellers. The outer suburbs of Paris are similar to what they used to be years ago...where the poor are shunted off, safely outside the city walls.
They're rioting, the violence getting worse nightly, as thousands of riot control police fill the streets, firing teargas, beating locals, and making mass arrests. The trigger was the electrocution a few days ago of youth fleeing the police.
Could this happen here?
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