# Pose Ton CRS During a Paris street protest against labor reform on April 14, 2016, a French CRS riot officer kicked a woman at a café terrace, and a frame of his raised leg from freelance photographer Jan Schmidt-Whitley was clipped out and turned into a photoshop template the same night. By the next morning, Twitter users were pasting the cutout officer into ballet stills and album covers under the hashtag #PoseTonCRS. ## Origin On April 14, 2016, officers of the Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité clashed with demonstrators in central Paris during a street protest against the government's proposed labor code reform[3]. A 24-year-old student named Tamara, who said she had been sitting at a café terrace nearby, approached the line and confronted officers before one of them kicked her to the ground; BFMTV filmed the moment[6]. The exact frame of the officer's raised leg was captured by freelance photojournalist Jan Schmidt-Whitley, who posted it to Facebook that day with a short account of what led up to the kick[1]. His photo was shared more than 3,000 times in the following 72 hours[7]. - **Platform:** Facebook (source photo) / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** @JulesLmeghribi (cutout template) - **Date:** 2016 ## Overview Pose Ton CRS edits start from a transparent PNG of the officer with his leg raised mid-kick, which users drop into other photographs to riff on the French ballet term "posé"[2]. Jokes feed on the gap between his aggressive stance and whatever elegant or absurd scene he gets inserted into, from dance stills to album covers[3]. The hashtag #PoseTonCRS gathered the edits on Twitter in the 48 hours after the kick, and French papers covered the trend as a textbook photoshop meme while the labor-reform protests were still ongoing[4]. Comparisons to the 2011 Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop image, which came out of the UC Davis Occupy protests, were made in the French coverage[7]. ## How to Use Grab the cutout template of the officer with his leg out, drop him into any image where his pose reads as a dance step, a kick in a sports photo, or a slapstick entry into a famous painting, and tag the result #PoseTonCRS. The pun hinges on the French ballet term "posé," so dance photography was the common convention in the first days of the trend[5]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Pose Ton CRS? Pose Ton CRS is a French photoshop meme that uses a cutout of a CRS riot officer kicking a woman at a Paris café in April 2016, which users paste into other images under the hashtag #PoseTonCRS[2]. ### Where did Pose Ton CRS come from? The source photo was taken by freelance photojournalist Jan Schmidt-Whitley during a labor-reform protest in Paris on April 14, 2016, and posted to his Facebook page the same day[1]. ### What does Pose Ton CRS mean? It translates roughly to "Put Your CRS" and plays on "posé," a ballet term for a step onto a flat foot with a straight knee, which is why many edits put the officer into dance photographs[7]. ### How do you use Pose Ton CRS? Drop the cutout template of the kicking officer into any image where his raised leg looks like a dance step or a slapstick entry, and tag the result #PoseTonCRS, which was the common convention in the April 2016 trend[5]. ### Is Pose Ton CRS still popular? No. The meme peaked over roughly 48 hours in mid-April 2016 while the French labor-reform protests were in the news, and faded once that story moved on[4]. ## References 1. [https://www.facebook.com/40339795271/photos/a.10150758668615272.457742.40339795271/10153952008730272/?type=3]() 2. [https://twitter.com/JulesLmeghribi/status/720668960115552257/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]() 3. [http://www.20minutes.fr/insolite/1827575-20160415-posetoncrs-coup-pied-policier-devient-twitter]() 4. [http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/04/15/le-crs-la-jeune-femme-le-coup-de-pied-et-la-viralite/]() 5. [http://www.lesinrocks.com/2016/04/16/actualite/meme-de-semaine-crs-devient-risee-web-11820320/]() 6. [https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/pose-ton-crs]() 7. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pose-ton-crs]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/pose-ton-crs Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library