Israel: Police launch probes into cops who told protester ‘I’ll rape your mother,’ shoved Knesset member
The Department for Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) said Sunday it had opened probes into a police officer who was filmed telling a demonstrator that he would rape his mother, and other officers who clashed with a lawmaker.
In a statement, the DIPI said it would contact the protester and Labor MK Naama Lazimi, and that the incidents would be investigated in depth.
At the weekly protest at Jerusalem’s Paris Square, near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence on Saturday evening, an officer was filmed cursing and threatening a protester he detained, telling him “I’ll rape your mother” and calling him a “son of a bitch.”
DIPI also said it was investigating officers who were filmed in a confrontation with Lazimi at a protest in Tel Aviv.
Lazimi was shoved and grabbed by police officers, despite the parliamentary immunity granted to her as a Knesset member.
She told media outlets that “policemen assaulted” her and pulled her hair while she was trying to help another protester.
When Lazimi stepped between a group of protesting hostage families and police, the latter group dragged her away.
The politician later tweeted that violence against family members of the hostages and activists for the hostages’ return has become routine. [Continue reading…]
The police last night attacked a protestor who had a t-shirt of hostage Hersh Goldberg.
He was violently attacked for wanting a hostage deal.
This is what Netanyahu’s Israel has become.
— We Are All Hostages (@AllHostages) June 30, 2024