Beating of Palestinian-American Boy Caught on Video

[azurnoir]

As my colleague Jodi Rudoren reports, a video posted online appears to show Israeli police officers beating a Palestinian-American boy after his detention on Thursday during protests in East Jerusalem that followed the death of his cousin, a teenager who was kidnapped and killed two days earlier.

Relatives said that video recorded from two angles by witnesses showed two masked police officers hitting and kicking the boy, Tariq Khdeir, 15, a high school sophomore from Tampa, Fla., as they took him into custody with 11 others. A police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, accused the boy of “attacking security officers and rioting,” but his father, Salah Abu Khdeir, told The Associated Press that he had witnessed his son’s arrest and insisted that he was not involved in any violence. “I asked my son, ‘Did you throw rocks?’ He said, ‘No,'” Mr. Abu Khdeir said in an interview with CNN.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/world/middleeast/beating-of-palestinian-american-boy-caught-on-video.html?_r=0

as a V&M host I am aware of the no I/P rule however this involves an American citizen currently residing in the US making it Israel/US as opposed to Israel/Palestine

[Personal Damon]

1. I'm sure the police had a Very Good Reason for this

[Scootaloo]

2. No matter the nation, that does seem to always be the case

And again no matter the nation there are those who will cup their hands together to carry water for such thugs. Slavish adherence to authority seems to be an opiate.

[delrem]

3. That is very powerful witness.

[Quantess]

4. How hard is it to hold a camera still?

Anyway, is this the boy who was killed?