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On 14 February 2017, the anti-Islam Facebook group Our Eye on Islam shared a video entitled France Has Fallen which purportedly showed Muslim refugees taking over an area of the European country: Our Eye on Islam provided little context concerning the events glimpsed in the video, and even though an explanation of the cause of the riots was also noticeably absent from the comment sections of the video on Facebook, viewers generally agreed that America needed to wake up and stop refugees from entering the U.S. or else this (i.e., Muslim refugees committing violent acts) would soon start happening in America as well: The riots depicted in the video have little to do with Muslims or refugees, however. Signs glimpsed in the video showing the locale to be the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis identify the demonstration as one that took place on 11 February 2017, one of multiple violent clashes between protesters and police took place in France after a young black man was allegedly sodomized by a police officer: As the Washington Post noted, the protests were sparked by police investigators' conclusion that the injuries suffered by Théo were unintentional and did not constitute rape:
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