More than 20,000 people gathered in Paris after the Justice for Adama committee called a protest over Adama Traoré's 2016 death in police custody and a new medical report commissioned by his family. Demonstrations elsewhere in France connected the case to George Floyd's killing and the global Black Lives Matter wave. Assa Traoré and the family committee made a long-standing French struggle visible to a wider public, challenging color-blind narratives and calling attention to racial profiling, police force and accountability. Accounts of the cause of Adama's death remained contested between family and official medical assessments.
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