French cops
caught on video brutally beating a woman

The eight-minute video (see below), which has been watched
more than 600,000 times on Youtube, shows the later stages of an
arrest taking place on rue Pierre Coubertin in the town of
Joué-les-Tours, in the Indre-et-Loire department.

According to local daily La Nouvelle Republique, the two
officers had stopped a car driving erratically on the street early
on Sunday morning, and found the driver highly
intoxicated.

The latter became uncooperative and unruly when asked to
submit to the alcohol test, and a female passenger intervened,
allegedly biting one of the two officers, according to a
representative of the Unité SGP police officers union, who spoke to
France Bleu radio on Tuesday.

The video begins with one officer attempting to subdue the
driver and keep him on the ground, while the second officer
grapples with one of the female passengers, striking her freely
with his baton, including once, with force, on the face.

A few moments later, the same officer goes to his vehicle to
retrieve tear gas, according to French daily Le Parisien, which he
sprays in the face of the woman, before also spraying a second
woman directly in the face.

What’s French for ‘stop resisting!’?