Video of forced eviction in Paris suburb prompts shock

I'm tired of people blaming the police for doing their jobs. These Officers did nothing wrong. How would you like a group of homeless people to set up a camp in your neighborhood? The officers were talking to the people and I know that the last thing they wanted is to have a physical confrontation with the women. If those women were so concerned about their children why did they bring them to a demonstration? they could have walked away and handled the problem in a civilized manner. I know that would be a first for them.

Firstly, these protesters should be ashamed that they are effectively using infants as shields and aids to their 'cause'.
Secondly, if there are indeed illegal immigrants in this crowd, then where were the immigration dept?
This may be normal behaviour in africa. At least this is what we see in the media, but serious steps need to be taken to stop emigration and alleviate over-population and economic/political distress within africa/asia/s.america. We live together on a globe of rock, whether we like it or not.

I saw no “police brutality” in this video nor anything "scary". The video didn't show they were actually being evicted from their homes. There were no homes to be seen in the video. It is propaganda. I'm beginning to think France 24 is like American media, full of opinions instead of pure news reporting. Of course these poor people need a place to live until it is decided what is to be done with them. Maybe the communists and the socialist organizations who protesting so loudly should provide some workable answers. If the answers come out of their personal pocketbooks, I'm sure you'd hear less of them.

This is not unlike the illegal Mexicans in Arizona or California; the Roma in Italy. Ireland, or Germany, or the other illegal immigrants in other Countries. While it is understandable that they all wish for a "better life", it does not include becoming a blight and burden on the host Country. Immigrate legally, live responsibly and in accord with local laws and customs.

Everyone of the women holding a child in their arms or on their backs, while resisting simply being moved, should be criminally charged with child endangerment!!!

Just because we hear a lot of women screaming and shouting as though they were being raped does not mean they were actually being brutalised by the police. If we simply pay attention to what the police are doing there is no striking or aggression towards the woman, the women are simply screaming and shouting a soon as the police lay hands on them.
There seem to be two main contested acts of police brutality: the woman lying unconscious and unattended and the woman being pulled out who who had a baby tied to her back. Firstly The woman who was lying on her back unconscious was like that before the police even started trying to remove the women, it was nothing to do with the police. With the incident where the woman is pulled out with the baby on her back, the police could not have known the baby was attached to her back, she is the one responsible for putting her child's life at risk not the police.
In general I am very quick to point out police brutality when it happens but there is quite simply nothing in that video to show police acting in a brutal way towards anyone. They were doing their best in a very difficult situation and on the whole they were pretty respectful of people's safety. Having seen many acts of brutality on video by American police I can't imagine how a similar incident might have been treated over there, more than likely batons and pepper spray would've been the order of the day.

Finally! Finally the police act, say, actively in order to protect the law.
What kind of mothers are they if they bring babies to such demonstrations? It was done on purpose, I stress, on purpose just to force other feel sympathy.
But what I feel is completely different. It is outrage. Hopefully, all these women will be punished for child abuse.

I believe that France is a civilized country, as far as I can see on the video the lady in question was not too cooperative but, helas the police should and has to be much more civilized when approaching these kinds of situations now; the burden is on them and the number one immigrant Sarkozy lui meme. The video contains quite explicit and hideous police heartless demonstrations.
Good luck France.

The police appeared to be acting in quite a restrained way, they did not punch or strike anyone that I seen, they simply were removing the people as best the could. Maybe these people have legitimate grievances but at the end of the day they had to be removed and the police done that in what appeared to be a fairly restrained manner. As other people have pointed out some of these protesters acted in a completely irresponsible way by taking their children along them and in some cases these children were babies, that is a lot less "civilised" behaviour than anything I saw the police doing.

These people should not be in France in the first place if they have no papers.
Resisting police officers was the cause of the problems.
Addressing the the comment France has obligations to Africa, really? In what sense? Declaring independence means taking care of yourselves and solving your own problems. Otherwise they should have stayed a colony.

The women were breaking the law and then INTENTIONALLY putting their own children at risk for the cameras. They should be arrested for the crime of child abuse. The police appear to have acted very carefully.

First, if you are planning on resisting the police, you shouldn't bring babies along the demonstration. Second, it is totally irresponsible for parents to bring their infants to any demonstration. Third, I didn't see the police beating anyone with batons. Tear gas wasn't used either. In my opinion, the police handled the situation quite sensitively, considering the resistance they met. No, I'm not shocked, I applaud the French police for their non-escalating and non-violent approach in dispersing the crowd.