Israel Police Commissioner Yochanan Danino said on Tuesday that an officer who was filmed beating an IDF soldier from Israel’s Ethiopian community will be expelled from the force, pending a hearing.
The video clip, that emerged on Monday, showed Ethiopian soldier Demis Tekeda, being attacked by two policemen the day before. Police said the second man was a volunteer policeman, and noted that he would no longer be allowed to serve with the police.
Demis, a 21-year-old orphan who emigrated from Ethiopia with his four siblings seven years ago, told Channel 10 that he was riding his bicycle when he noticed the two officers.
He said that he asked them what they were up to and one of them confronted him and pushed him off his bike, saying, “I can do whatever I want.”
He said that the officer threatened to shoot him in the head, and that they only let up after he backed away and lifted a rock.
Several police officers then detained the soldier for alleged assault, although the footage showed that Tekeda did not attack them with the rock in his hand.
Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/police-chi … -be-fired/