46 injured in Ethiopian Israeli protest against police brutality -Tel Aviv

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Police take harsh action against protesters hurling rocks and bottles; earlier, thousands blocked roads in rally against police violence and racism.

Clashes erupted in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on Sunday as thousands of people gathered to protest police brutality toward Israeli Jews of Ethiopian descent.

At least 46 people were injured - at least 23 of them police officers. Police made 15 arrests.

Police fired stun grenades and tear gas while some protesters tried to break into the Tel Aviv City Hall, located at the square. Other protesters hurled rocks, planks and plastic and glass bottles at police.

The protest began near the Kaplan Interchange, where protesters blocked major arteries and junctions, including the Ayalon South freeway and Hashalom Interchange, as well as surrounding streets. Protesters also marched along Derech Begin towards the train station but were blocked by police.

Later on, the protest moved to Rabin Square as police gradually opened the blocked roads.

Speaking ahead of the demonstration, organizers rejected comparisons with recent events in Baltimore but said the protests will continue until their messages sink in and the government takes action to foster equality. “The fact that we’re black doesn’t mean that we’re Baltimore,” one of the organizers, Inbal Bogale, told Haaretz. “In Jerusalem we didn’t ‘do a Baltimore’ as people are saying, that’s not what it was about,” she said, referring to protests in the capital on Thursday night that turned violent. “The police documented every moment of the demonstration and I want to see the documentation, whether we really started the violence as the police claim. We marched in the streets and they fired stun grenades at us.”

 Some of the organizers have known each other for a long time and tried to help the family of a young Ethiopian Israeli man, Yosef Salamseh, in their quest for answers surrounding his death. Officers used a stun gun on Salamseh while arresting him on suspicion of breaking and entering. He committed suicide a few months later. “We saw what happened to the Salamseh family, they went to half the country and nobody gave them answers. We insist that the family receive answers, we’re going out to battle so that cases like Yosef’s are not repeated.”

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[Didymus 34,380]

Damn No idea this was going on, or that there was a large community of Ethiopian Jews there.

Though I still think the idea of using violence to demand equality is a bit.. I don't even know, I still hope something good comes out of it

[Dolev 867]

I generally support them, but they lost me the moment they started vandalise streets.
I wish the government would have done more to integrate them with society. That being said, it will take some more time. Taking people from completely different cultures and expecting them to immediately feel belong with each other is simply.... impossible. 

[Luc 4,776]

Police discrimination is a big problem in so many countries... police aren't usually the most well-educated people and too often enforce stereotypes while they're supposed to be the examples.

[lego 44,165]

The protests were sparked after a video emerged of policemen beating a black soldier. 

 

 

 

[Melech 9,900]

Netanyahu wants to get rid of racism.  

 

[Jjang 2,262]

Netanyahu wants to get rid of racism.  

 

​-_-

[Luc 4,776]

Netanyahu wants to get rid of racism.  

 

​Lol. I wouldn't trust a right-wing politician in that, they're the problem themselves.

[hmm 979]

Netanyahu wants to get rid of racism.  

 

​It's good that he wants that but he also needs to look closer to home for racism; his own "the Arabs are voting in drones" comments as well as his wife's alleged harassment of an employee of theirs of Moroccan descent.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10710700/Netanyahus-sued-by-former-caretaker-over-racist-and-physical-abuse.html

It's definitely saddening though that the victim of the racist incident said that "we're [the Ethopian Jewish minority in Israel] trying to become integrated in the Israeli society as much as we can" yet according to ynetnews "Ethiopian households earn 35 percent less than the national average and only half earn high school diplomas, compared with 63 percent for the rest of the population." so if he's promising to change this then it's a good step in the right direction, but definitely not good enough.

[Ronlop 6,882]

I generally support them, but they lost me the moment they started vandalise streets.
I wish the government would have done more to integrate them with society. That being said, it will take some more time. Taking people from completely different cultures and expecting them to immediately feel belong with each other is simply.... impossible. 

​Your posts are on point! 

[boobtank 9,090]

The ethiopian and eritrean communities in Israel are sadly subject to a vast amount a racism.