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Feb. 12, 2021
The police officer charged with negligent homicide in the shooting death of 18-year-old Ethiopian Israeli Solomon Teka in June 2019 would not return to the force, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai told Teka s family on Friday, following public outrage over the initial decision.
Police sources told Haaretz the officer was reinstated at the order of the new commander of the police’s Coastal District, Maj. Gen. Yoram Sofer. The sources said the controversial decision came as a surprise to Israel’s top cop, who only heard about it on Thursday it in media reports.
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Feb. 11, 2021
Following a drawn out legal process, Israel s High Court of Justice on Wednesday struck down a directive to review Israel s police misconduct investigation unit. The order, issued by Netanyahu ally, Public Security Minister Amir Ohana, during his term as justice minister, was accused of being politically motivated to secure votes for Likud in the March 2020 election.
In rejecting the order, the court granted the petition of private citizens including the organization Guardians of Israeli Democracy. The petition states that Ohana’s order was motivated by a desire to attract the votes of Ethiopian Israelis in the March 2020 election, in the wake of public outrage following the murder of Solomon Teka, an unarmed Ethiopian teenager, by a police officer.
A special Shomrim project brings you the colors, sounds and voices from the Black protest movement that has already started to bubble over into the Israeli art and culture scenes, inspiring a new generation of proud and conscious women and men. Ten monologues.
As a teen, Lior was slapped in the face by a cop • Rachel knows that this struggle will be passed down from generation to generation • And Binyamin puts it in a nutshell: “The fact that we eat falafel and they have hamburgers doesn’t make any difference; we’re all flesh and blood who suffer from the same international problem – the white man’s hold over the public expanse and key positions of power.”