Police racism triggered most UK and French urban riots, hitting immigrant-origin youths hardest

Evidence

The crisis also concerns the institutions which ensure public order and national security, the police, the judiciary, and public service employees. Thus the urban riots observed in the United Kingdom, and more frequently but in a less spectacular fashion in France, have in most cases been triggered by racist behavior on the part of the police; the victims of their heavy-handed methods and “mistakes” are to a large extent young people of immigrant origin. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3161

Categorization

• QUESTION: The causal claim that police racism ‘triggered’ most urban riots in both countries is strong — worth checking against specific riot events and fault-line analyses.
• XREF: connects to: The 2011 UK riots directly echoed 1980s riots sparked by police killings — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1292