01/07/2024
By Ruth Aigbogie
Front-page News
Israel’s 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.
In a statement, the DIPI said it would contact the protester and that the incident 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.
Lazimi, a lawmaker was also filmed being shoved and grabbed by police officers in Tell Aviv, despite the parliamentary immunity granted to her as a Knesset member.
The politician later tweeted that violence against family members of the hostages and activists for the hostages’ return has become routine.
She told media outlets that “policemen assaulted” her and pulled her hair while she was trying to help another protester.“This is the government’s police force and not a public police force,” she charged,”but they won’t scare me or us. The police will be restored and rebuilt.”
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