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“I live near the square and I thought it would be the right thing to do to come with my son,” the father said, who showed no inclination to approach the politicians or elected officials who had come to attend the mass demonstration at the square. Instead, he just stood there for half an hour and then returned home.
There were many people like him who attended Friday’s protest against police brutality in the Israeli Arab community – mothers and fathers with children, Umm al-Fahm residents who were not involved in politics and who came to protest and to demand their most basic right to personal security and to live without fear.