Souzie missed out on Paris’s first big protest against police brutality — the unexpectedly massive rally on June 2 in support of Adama Traoré, a twenty-four-year-old who died in police custody in the city’s suburbs in 2016.

But the twenty-one-year-old health aide from the département of Val-d’Oise — the same one as Traoré — was proud to be able to make it for round two last weekend. “I’m a young black woman living in a pretty complicated country,” Souzie told me at a jam-packed Place de la République on Saturday. “And all the people here, we’ve seen just a little too much injustice.”

That feeling extends well beyond the capital. Over the last two weeks, demonstrations against police violence have erupted across France: in big cities like Marseilles, Lyons, Nantes, and Strasbourg, but also smaller ones like Dieppe and Avignon. While triggered by the protest movement in the United States over the death of George Floyd, they’ve been fueled by a renewed focus on cases of police brutality much closer to home.