While the headline leads one to believe a criminal at large was apprehended, one might believe this was the case if one was standing outside the area of the Jerusalem Central Bus station when a chareidi male who crossed the street on a red light was apprehended.
The bachor crossed in an authorized crosswalk, but did so on a red traffic signal, prompting two female officers to attempt to stop him. He tried to evade them while they apparently called for ‘back-up’. They finally did detain him, doing so without any regard for his religious sensibilities the Kikar Shabbos report states, all the while two backup units sped to the scene, traveling against the flow of traffic using lights and sirens, all to apprehend the chareidi thug.
To make things worse, a number of secular appearing people gathered around the area and began shouting derogatory anti-chareidi epithets at the bachor who was not in police custody.
The report decries the behavior of police, stating with a modicum of confidence that the actions of police seem to be directly related to the fact that the jay-walker was a member of the chareidi community.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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20 Responses
Yechiel, this is yellow journalism and you know it.
I happened to have been there catching a bus and from a distance you would’ve thought it was a terror attack! It was ridiculous! The police were treating this boy like a serious criminal and shoving him into a cop car flanked by four officers!! I was watching him try to explain something to the police in a very calm way and the cop just kept pushing him and handcuffed him! The way the police acted reminded me of the KGB!
# 3, do you even know what KGB is? I highly doubt that.
Iztheman this is NOT yellow journalism but pretty much black and white. (Get it chareidim are called the black ones!)
#4, perhaps you heard of it’s name but not it’s real actions
Same thing happened to me last week.
everybody in E’Y knows to be careful when crossing at the Tchna merkazit the police are always there waiting to catch some one and they catch a few every day.
I know a few people who got tickets and I always wait for the light even though it’s a total waste of time.
i was once giver a red light ticket. it’s 100 shekel to be paid in the post office like all your other bills. that’s it! if all this guy did was cross against a light and this is how they treated him there is a very big problem out there.
# 7 Maybe this article is about YOU!
i think the cops where right on this one. why was he evading them when confronted thats rule #1 even if the cops wrong you dont resist, you can confront them in court, not on the street
IF A COP TRIES TO STOP YOU, YOU DON’T TRY TO EVADE HIM/HER!!!
Do me a favor and don’t blame the police on this one. And don’t cry victim for the boy.
#10, no, for me it was at home. I was taken away with handcuffs on my back and then also got cuffs on my ankles, as if I were a big crime king.
Background is not relevant here. I’m not complaining about it either – this is E”Y and these yissurim happen here as a fact of life.
Here are some things you can do while waiting for a red light to turn green:
.Review all the mishnayos you know by heart.
.Smile at a stranger.
.Say a kapittel tehilim for Gilad Shalit.
.Admire cloud formations, and thank Hashem for the beautiful world.
.Plan what you would like people to say about you at your levaya.
Feel free to add to the list.
#14 : very creative !!
“.Plan what you would like people to say about you at your levaya.”
hmm, how about, “he never jaywalked”
for me the operative phrase in the story hiis that the fellow tried to evade the police
as with so many other news reports we’ve seen recently (though admittedly on a different scale), this is nothing more than trouble that begins when people fail to take responsibility for their actions – nu, you jaywalked and got caught? Fine – pay the ticket and move on. You had a good excuse to cross against the light? Fine – tell the police your story, and see what they say – if it’s not good enough for them, then tell the judge –
if you go over the speed limit, you risk a speeding ticket – if you stay past the time on the parking meter, you risk a parking ticket – if you litter, you risk a citation – so every time you speed, stay over the meter, and litter, you’re essentially saying that you’re accepting the risk that you might get caught and ticketed – and if and when you do, face up to it, and move on –
when a man or women with a badge and a gun asks you to stop, you stop – you don’t “try to evade” –
#14
You must be spending a lot of time at traffic lights1
I think that the cops and the bochur should have a beer together next week. That’s the latest American way to solve racial (chareidi) problems.
Thinking out loud, you must be a tzaddik. I am not sarcastic. I mean it. You make more sense than the rest of us.
I find it somewhat ironic that when it’s America and a white cop arrests a black professor who’s not compliant most of us side with the cop. But when a secular Israeli cop arrests a chareidi bachur who’s not compliant we scream discrimination. We can’t have it both ways. The reality is that we have a responsibility as citizens who are protected by our police force to comply with the police officers. In both instances the cops had every right to approach and make demands and it was the civilian who disobeyed. Maybe the cops were more forceful because the bachur was chareidi, we’ll never truly know, but my guess is tons of other people encounter the same thing every day and don’t get arrested so I doubt we can really blame the police as much as we’re tempted to.
To # 19 a beer is a great idea but what Hechser must it have