Israeli Border Police Officer Suspended After Throwing Palestinian Girl's Bike Into Bushes
Two Border Police officers were filmed driving a Palestinian girl, who was riding a bicycle in Hebron, away and then once she fled one of the two picked up her bike and threw it into the bushes. The officer who threw the bike was suspended on Tuesday.
The video that was released by human rights group B'tselem was filmed last week. It shows an officer running towards the girl, Anwar Burqan, on Hebron's al-Ibrahimi St., demanding she stop on the roadside. He steps on her bicycle after she lays them on the road, asks her some questions until she runs away crying.
After that, another officer arrives at the scene, picks up the bicycle she had left behind and throws them into the bushes. The officer that threw the bike was suspended. The conduct of the other officer is currently under investigation.
Large swaths of al-Ibrahimi St. are closed to Palestinian traffic. Apparently, the girl's bicycle was confiscated because she was riding in a part of the street closed to Palestinians.
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