The gendarmes have grenades, as I've mentioned in another comment, do the municipal police? Why would police need grenades, of all things? Does the US police

The gendarmes have grenades, as I've mentioned in another comment, do the municipal police? Why would police need grenades, of all things? Does the US police use grenades? > i can't think of a single high-profile police violence incident where the Gendermerie were involved. Have the US police ever killed an unarmed protestor with their hands in the air using a grenade? From[1]: > Statements from several eye witnesses show that Rémi, 21, had his hands in the air and was calling on gendarmes to stop firing when he was struck and killed by an offensive grenade. Their accounts also cast some doubts over the version of events given by the authorities about the student's death. Perhaps you were just unaware. [1] https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/270316/eco-protester-had-hands-air-when-killed-french-gendarmes-grenade https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/270316/eco-protes...