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Court clears Border Police officer of wrongdoing in 2020 killing of autistic Palestinian
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The parents of Iyad Halak, an autistic Palestinian man who was fatally shot by Israeli police, Khiri, right, and mother Rana, talk during an interview in Jerusalem, June 3, 2020. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)
The Jerusalem District Court clears a Border Police officer of wrongdoing after he shot and killed an autistic Palestinian man in 2020.
The Border Police officer, whose name is barred for publication, shot and killed Iyad Halak in the Old City after mistakenly believing the phone he was holding was a weapon, and after Halak refused orders to remain still.
The court rules that the officer in question “acted out of self defense and out of concern for his life and for the lives of others around him” during the incident.
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