Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit on Monday informed a police officer that he would likely be indicted for beating Ethiopian-Israeli soldier Damas Pakada in April 2015 - a shocking and dramatic reversal of his predecessor Yehuda Weinstein's June 2015 decision to close the case. Weinstein had said that Pakada had been at least partially at fault for the altercation and had cleared both sides of any charges. The soldier tries to keep walking and is pushed back once, and then a second time before the officer knees him, punches him in the face and puts his hands around his neck momentarily. The soldier appears to throw a punch at the officer after he was struck.The officer and a volunteer then throw him to the ground in a vacant lot and continue to push him as he gets to his feet and refuses to stay down. The officers have been suspended and the evidence was immediately passed to the department for investigation by the police.

Source: Ethiopian News January 30, 2017 15:11 UTC