Bus driver Shlomi Sror filed a complaint with the Justice Ministry Police Investigations Unit against police in Yerushalayim who he claims used brutality and unacceptable behavior against him. The incident occurred last week on Aggripas Street near Machane Yehuda. Sror, a driver on the Egged #19 line, entered an intersection. According to police he did so by running a red traffic signal. Sror explains the policeman came over to him and said “you ran a red light and I am going to issue you a summons”.
Sror explains he was instructed to continue driving until the last stop and he would receive the summons there to avoid holding up traffic and this is what he did.
After writing up the summons the officer requested from Sror to sign it. “I asked him to see what was written before signing but he refused to show it to me and then wrote that I refuse to sign. I said to him ‘We will meet in court and I will show you a thing or two’. He then said ‘you are under arrest’ and placed me in handcuffs.
In his complaint filed with the Justice Ministry unit, Sror says he sustained a head injury from the officer’s brutality. He explains the policeman took him to a hospital to have his injury treated. “The doctors asked why I was handcuffed and I explained ‘they say I ran a red light’. It was quite humiliating”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Police thugs at it again!
The demand, that a person sigh something without reading it, is standard operating procedure by the cops and the entire criminal justice system. In the event that the accused does read it, expect things that a reasonable person would object to. They won’t change it. In both cases threats and coercive actions are taken to force the accused a signature.
On top of that the cops and their cronies are totally incapable of evaluating any infraction. For example red lights can be poorly timed and poorly spaced so that stopping at them may cause a traffic accident. The response of the cop may be to laugh and say tell it to the judge, especially if they figure you may not want to take time off from work to challenge the fine.
It can be expensive to challenge these things especially if the cop and the judge cover for each other.
Sror must be Chareidi because the police here in Israel and the high court are so full of vitriol anti-chareidi, it’s pathetic.