Ethiopian Israeli association: Alsheich cannot be head of law enforcement

31 August 2016, 2:56 pm

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The head of the Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews calls on Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich to step down, saying he cannot remain in charge of Israel’s law enforcement.

The two met this morning over Alsheich’s claim yesterday that “immigrants are invariably more involved in crime than others,” Army Radio reported. Alsheich was speaking in response to a question about persistent accusations of police brutality and racial discrimination against Ethiopian Israelis.

“I told him — there is a certain elite who see themselves as God’s sole deputies and the only human beings, and [the rest of us] are all most likely criminals. Such a person cannot oversee the law enforcement system,” says IAEJ director Ziva Mekonen-Degu.