Israel Police Insp.-Gen. Yochanan Danino
[From article]
Thousands of rioters in Kafr Kana, a town in the Lower Galilee, clashed with security forces on Saturday hours after video emerged of police shooting a youth wielding a knife late Friday. The young man, 22-year-old Kheir a-Din Hamdan, died of his wounds.
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The recording of the incident shows a man approach a police van and appears to hit two of its side windows with an object in his hand. The suspect begins walking off and an officer emerges from the car, aiming a gun at the suspect, whose back is to him. The man falls to the ground, apparently shot, and then two other police emerge from the vehicle. In a longer version of the video, the wounded man can be seen still moving as police pick him up and place his body in the patrol vehicle. In their initial statement on Saturday morning, the Northern District police said Hamdan was carrying a knife and tried to attack the officers. They said the officers then fired a warning shot in the air and that “with their lives in danger the officers fired at the suspect.”
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Police said the shooting incident occurred when they arrived to arrest another person on suspicion of throwing a stun grenade, another man arrived wielding a knife and tried to stab the officers.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Thousands-riot-in-Galilee-after-Israeli-Arab-is-shot-dead-by-police-381168
By BEN HARTMAN
JPOST.COM STAFF
11/08/2014 16:15
Arabs declare general strike as thousands riot to protest shooting death by police
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