Abby Phillip: A Lot of the Rioters in France Are Also ‘White French People’

‘Just because, if you can find a few viral videos, you can just pin it on the brown people’

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PHILLIP: "On a more basic level, part of the issue is that there's an assumption that this is being carried out by foreigners when a lot of the people who are carrying out the violence are also white French people."
NAVARRO: "Yes, but every — again, it goes — "
PHILLIP: "So, I mean, I guess just because if you can find a few viral videos, you can just pin it on the brown people, but there are also plenty of white people in the streets carrying out horrific violence that should be condemned too."

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