Latest International News: 44 French Riot Police Officers Stage Sick-Out Over Racist Remarks About Female Black Journalist Florice Houngbo

French riot officers stage sick-out in response to fellow officer being disciplined over racist remark about black TV journalist Florice Houngbo after she was barred from illegal immigrant press conference.

From The Connexion: Riot police from France's CRS unit have staged a sick-out. Why? This in response to an officer being disciplined after he/she barred a black woman TV journalist, Florice Houngbo, from a press conference, saying: “Since when have they had blacks working at TF1?” The Connexion said 44 officers went to hospital en masse to get sick notes as they are banned from striking.

The journalist, Florice Houngbo, was covering the eviction of a group of Tunisian illegal immigrants from a squat in the 19th arrondissement in Paris when she was refused entry to the police press conference. Despite showing her press card she was unable to get access and had to call her editor at TF1 to try to get the situation cleared up. No other journalist was stopped.

These are the stories we need to hear about in the mainstream media, but they take backseat to Bristol Palin's plastic surgery and other ridiculous news stories.