“Why didn’t they shoot him in the legs?” shouted the mother of 18-year-old Solomon Teka, shot to death by a policeman in Kiryat Haim, when she was at the police station. Teka is another victim of the police being too quick to pull the trigger when confronted by youths of Ethiopian descent. Teka’s mother wondered why the policeman didn’t shoot him in the legs. The police investigation department arrested the policeman in question on suspicion of manslaughter, and the Haifa Magistrate’s Court released him to house arrest on Monday. The above article is Haaretz’s lead editorial, as published in the Hebrew and English newspapers in Israel.

Source: Ethiopian News July 01, 2019 22:07 UTC