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VIDEO: Police shoot dead youth holding knife
Hassan Shaalan
Published: 08.11.14, 13:00
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1. Knife was designed to kill, not to make salad
Adi ,   Zurich   (11.08.14)
Knife was designed to kill, not to make salad
2. Attacking the police is reason to be shot.
BUILD BABY BUILD!!   (11.08.14)
3. Looks Fully Justified
emanon ,   USA   (11.08.14)
Attack a police vehicle, sure they're going to stop. Attack a police office with a weapon and you can expect to get shot. Look at the video. The officer got out UNARMED, the kid tried attacking the officer and he went back into the vehicle. The door opens again and the same person attacks again. That's when the officer defended himself.
4. Looks justified
Joshua ,   Jerusalem   (11.08.14)
If you watch carefully after walking just out of picture the arab turns back and you can see the arm and knife lifted up against the officer, before he gets capped.
5. If the situation..
TA ,   T.A.   (11.08.14)
..would be the other way around: a jewish resident being shot in the back while walking away from the car he previously hit - oh my, what an outcry we would have! Terror attack! Abroad we would shout 'Antisemitism'! But since it happend the way it did happen: all looks justified.
6. avoidable
j   (11.08.14)
there had to be a way to get him arrested without shooting him to death. unfortunately the police bunch aren't the smartest people around.
7. #3n Looks like a cold-blooded police killing
Ben Alofs ,   Bangor, UK   (11.08.14)
At no point the police was in mortal danger. The windows of the police car remained intact. When the police officer came out of the car the first time there was the door and the window between him and the attacker. During the second time he gets out the assailant is already running away. He is not attacking the police officer and the police officer does not have to defend himself as you claim. He does not fire a shot in the air, but shoots straight into the back of the person running away. That is not self defense, that looks more like a cold-blooded killing. I think the police officers in question realised that too, because after the event they have to come up with a justification for their lethal action. But guess what. They were not aware of it that they were being filmed. The footage shows clearly that at no point they were in mortal danger, certainly not at the point when the police officer shot the fleeing man in the back. The footage also shows that the policeman did not fire in the air. I can understand why many people in Kafr Kanna are very upset about the behaviour of the police. They are obviously thinking that if the assailant would have been a Jewish Israeli he would not have ended up shot and killed.
8. #2
(11.08.14)
Next time a settler attacks the police he'll get shot?
9. What shooting ? ,...
(11.08.14)
They're good at eliminating evidence and covering tracks - They shot this dude in the back while he was running away ,... They were safe in the car. What I see it's an obvious disdain for Palestinian life ,...
10. Two wrongs don't make a right
Brian Cohen ,   Judean Peoples Front   (11.08.14)
We all know that the Israeli police are about 20 years behind in the adoption of current western police practices - in this case the Israelis don't appear to have been armed with any of the standard tools to disarm a knife-wielding attacker who clearly wanted to kill police officers. In other countries, the police will often try non-fatal methods first to take down an attacker who wants to commit suicide-by-police. Let's be perfectly clear - the video clearly shows this guy coming up to a clearly marked police vehicle with the apparent intention of killing one or more police officers. Given that this is the middle east and EVERY country around here is plagued with jihadist whackos whose first goal is to die killing somebody - especially uniformed defense poeple - one cannot overly fault the police for shooting a guy who only seconds early was trying to get through the window to put a knife in their necks. Should the police be using less lethal methods? Definitely. Did this fellow citizen of mine cross a red line and pay the ultimate price for it? Definitely. Bottom line remains that this guy apparently wanted to kill police officers and had he succeeded in breaking the window he would have kept slashing and not stopped.
11. no prisoners taken
jochair ,   kfar saba Israel   (11.08.14)
taking prisoners will lead to abductions and prisoner release blackmail.
12. Its not so clear what happened.
Susan ,   Kfar Saba   (11.08.14)
He went down to the side, almost off camera and behind another vehicle. I cant tell if was running away or coming back at the cop.
13. If it were the Turkish police,
The Ginger ,   Istanbul   (11.08.14)
they would have shot him in the head with a tear gas canister and said he was a member of a parallel organization trying to foment a coup. If it were the American police, they would have shot his dog first and then him multiple times.
14. At 22 NO YOUTH "shoot dead youth holding knife"
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15. can there be a justification for his attack?
Larry ,   LA (formerly)   (11.08.14)
An Arab idiot attacks a police car and gets killed; you expected them to invite him for tea and chocolate chip cookies? This is a very violent time for Israel and its Arabs; the violence must stop and the Arabs must realize that we will not tolerate it forever. Let his buddies learn from his stupid action that there is serious consequences to attacking the police.
16. #15,yes, policemen not to be deadly attacked,have families!
(11.08.14)
17. Ben Alof you are playing stupid or are you?
Ari   (11.09.14)
18. Jesus began his miracles in this town
George   (11.09.14)
By turning water into wine. Too bad muslims don't believe in Jesus as Lord and be saved. None of the arab Christians attack israeli police or riot like madmen, it's always just the arab Muslims.
19. Family's comment was correct
Mikhael ,   SomeWhere OverHere   (11.15.14)
His relatives released a statement: "this horrifying incident could have been avoided," Yes, it could have been avoided if Hamdan didn't try to stab police officers with a knife.
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