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Ethiopian Israelis denounce police brutality discrimination
(MENAFN- Arab News) TEL AVIV: Thousands of Ethiopian Israelis protested in central Tel Aviv on Sunday against police brutality and institutionalized discrimination an AFP correspondent said.
The protest came three days after a stormy demonstration in Jerusalem sparked by footage showing two policemen beating a uniformed Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin.
Scores of other Israelis also joined Sunday's rally chanting and holding up signs reading: 'A violent policeman must be put in prison' and 'We demand equal rights.'
As they marched through roads in central Tel Aviv some held their arms in the air wrists crossed as if handcuffed.
Police failed in preventing demonstrators from blocking the nearby Ayalon expressway causing huge traffic jams in one of the country's central highways during rush-hour and refrained from using force in evacuating protesters.
There were no reports of major clashes as occurred in Jerusalem on Thursday when 10 protesters and three policemen were injured.
'Being black I have to protest today' 34-year-old Eddie Maconen told AFP. 'I never experienced police violence against me personally but it is aimed at my community which I have to support' he said.
Maconen who came to the country aged three said the protesters wanted violent policemen to be put on trial before deeper issues of social inequality were tackled.
'First the police need to be dealt with then we'll get to all the other (official) bodies that screw over Ethiopians' he said.
Zion Cohen an Israeli participating in the demonstration told AFP the Ethiopians were 'a hundred percent right' to protest.
'It's a racist country and we don't accept them' he said.
The protest came three days after a stormy demonstration in Jerusalem sparked by footage showing two policemen beating a uniformed Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin.
Scores of other Israelis also joined Sunday's rally chanting and holding up signs reading: 'A violent policeman must be put in prison' and 'We demand equal rights.'
As they marched through roads in central Tel Aviv some held their arms in the air wrists crossed as if handcuffed.
Police failed in preventing demonstrators from blocking the nearby Ayalon expressway causing huge traffic jams in one of the country's central highways during rush-hour and refrained from using force in evacuating protesters.
There were no reports of major clashes as occurred in Jerusalem on Thursday when 10 protesters and three policemen were injured.
'Being black I have to protest today' 34-year-old Eddie Maconen told AFP. 'I never experienced police violence against me personally but it is aimed at my community which I have to support' he said.
Maconen who came to the country aged three said the protesters wanted violent policemen to be put on trial before deeper issues of social inequality were tackled.
'First the police need to be dealt with then we'll get to all the other (official) bodies that screw over Ethiopians' he said.
Zion Cohen an Israeli participating in the demonstration told AFP the Ethiopians were 'a hundred percent right' to protest.
'It's a racist country and we don't accept them' he said.
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