An Israeli police officer who gunned down a Palestinian man who had autism defied an order to hold his fire and killed the man even though he posed no danger to anyone, his commander has told investigators.
“He didn’t attack or do anything,” the commander testified, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.The 30 May shooting of Eyad al-Hallaq, 30, who was on his way to a school for those with a disability, came five days after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, and quickly became a rallying cry against police brutality at political protests that have roiled Israel for much of the summer.
One of them, a 21-year-old commander who was just days away from leaving the force, told investigators he fired at Mr al-Hallaq’s lower body while racing after him, but missed. Witnesses have said that a teacher of Mr al-Hallaq’s saw the episode unfolding and tried to intervene, shouting at the officers that Mr al-Hallaq posed no threat.
“It’s a closed place with no way to escape from it,” the commander said, adding of Mr al-Hallaq: “He didn’t attack or do anything. He was definitely not resisting. He didn’t endanger me in that situation.”
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