PARIS—French police defied a ban on mass gatherings to protest what they see as a lack of government support, marching shoulder to shoulder on June 12 on the Champs-Elysees to show their anger against new limits on arrest tactics and criticism of racism in their ranks.
France this week announced a ban on chokeholds as part of government efforts to stem police brutality and racism in the wake of global protests over the death of a black man, George Floyd, in the United States. But police have especially taken issue with any implication of systemic racism among French police.
