Two weeks ago, Peleg held a protest against the Chareidi draft law during which protesters blocked Sarei Yisrael.
In a video sent to B’Chadrei Chareidim, a police officer picked up an 11-year-old boy and slammed him back on the street.
The boy started crying from pain. A while later, he was evacuated to the hospital. The boy’s father told B’Chadrei that the medical staff rushed to release him after performing basic tests because they couldn’t stand the smell of the sunk spray the police had sprayed on them.
At home, the boy’s condition deteriorated and he began feeling dizzy with strong pain in his legs, although his legs were uninjured. By Lag B’Omer he couldn’t stand on his feet and had to be transported in a wheelchair. His father took him back to the hospital for more testing and they are waiting for the results.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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15 Responses
These cops are animals. Where’s the accountability? Where’s the outrage?
Maybe it really is time to dispense with this medina.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
How did this video not go viral yet?
This is worse than any of the other ones.
I mean, even the old man in meron… okay, maybe he lost himself a bit and threw him harder than he meant to (not an excuse, and it’s Norah vayom, but compared to this) but here there’s no possible pischon peh. He picked up someone who was clearly a minor and simply threw him onto the concrete. How is he not being tried for attempted murder of a minor? Oh right, because the Zionist entity is a police state, I forgot, sorry.
Perhaps the child should be removed from the parent’s custody if they allow their child to participate in such irresponsible behavior.
The idiot who’s holding him down is to blame here.
The police officer tried picking him up and place him to the side, and the man sitting down with ripped trousers (his father??) holds him down. The police officer just lost his temper, as anyone would do in that scenario.
That policeman is definitely an irresponsible thug who should be put on trial immediately. If this video is shown to a court, he is finished!
Zionists are pigs!! This is not our state and anyone who says it is are the real self-hating Jews. Look at this video. Who looks like a Jew? The cop definitely looks like anything but a Jew, no yarmulka, no peyos!
Instead the zionists run a police state where Chareidim are being treated worse than Arabs.
The biggest problem is that there is 0 accountability, the cops that beat up chareidim are rarely to never disciplined. Time to say, ENOUGH!
Imagine a mother telling her boy, why don’t you go outside on the street and have some fun fighting with the police by blocking traffic.
To the contrarians, self hating anti-semites, kapos, and both-siders in this comment section:
1. An 11 year old child has every right to be at a non-violent protest, especially l’shem shamayim.
2. Even if a child were at a violent protest, a policeman is not allowed to hurt him unless he is directly threatening someone’s life
3. Even if he were directly threatening someone’s life, a policeman is obligated to use the absolute minimum necessary force to disable an attacker, especially when the attacker is eleven.
4. Points 2 and 3 are irrelevant, because the protest wasn’t violent, and the child wasn’t violent.
To Jews with a Jewish heart: the Israeli Police will continue doing things like this until they start paying heavy prices every time. Remember the mentally challeged boy from Siach Sod? Noone paid the price then, and this is the result. The only way to deal with Hamas, and the only way to deal with Police brutality, is by establishing strict and uncompromising consequences.
doom777, none of your points are valid. Blocking traffic is violence. It’s violence when Hamas supporters do it, it’s violence when BLM does it, and it’s violence when so-called haredim do it.
Also, a policeman is entitled to use as much force as necessary to clear people who are blocking the street. No more than that, but definitely that much. If an inquiry shows that the policeman deliberately used more force than he had to in order to make this kid move, then he should face criminal charges. But if he used only as much force as a reasonable policeman would have used in his place, then he is not responsible for the outcome. That is the kid’s fault, and his parents’, and especially his “rebeyim” who taught him that such behavior is acceptable and mutar, let alone a mitzvah.
Milhouse, your definitions are wrong. Blocking traffic has always been considered non-violent disobedience, and has a rich history of being used non-violently. BLM didn’t block traffic, they beat people up, and burned entire neighborhoods down.
Second, your claim that “a policeman is entitled to use as much force as necessary to clear people who are blocking the street”. Clearly you cannot believe this. If a person glued his palms to the street (like environmental protestors do), does a policeman have a right to cut his arms off?
“But if he used only as much force as a reasonable policeman would have used in his place, then he is not responsible for the outcome. ” Would a reasonable policeman smash a non-violent protestor’s head against the asphalt? Of any age, kal v’homer an eleven year old.
The boy should have a refuah shelamah but the ones who really need professional help are the PARENTS who allowed a young bochur to engage in protests the KNEW would end the way these mindless demonstrations always do. If they don’t care, then don’t expect sympathy when the inevitable occurs.
Milhouse: I’m sorry, I often like what you write (not always, but often), but you are extraordinarily off-base here. You are NOT allowed to use necessary force to open up traffic if the force is used on a minor! Are you serious?! You can kill children when you are trying to bomb Hamas. You can exert force on adults when trying to clear streets. You CANNOT attempt to murder children to unblock a street. Of course not! If there is no other way to clear the street, you would need to find an alternate route. You can just kill a minor because of traffic.
*can’t
I just wonder why we need more hate when the whole world hates us already