Justice Ministry unit to ‘weigh options’ after cop cleared in teen’s shooting death
Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter

The Justice Ministry’s Department for Internal Police Investigations says it will weigh its options after the Haifa Magistrate’s Court acquitted a police officer of reckless manslaughter in the death of teen Solomon Tekah in 2019.
DIPI says it will study the ruling, in which a judge cleared the officer by accepting his claim that he had felt he was in life-threatening danger. It emphasizes that it indicted the off-duty officer due to the fact that he fired a shot at the ground, close to Tekah’s feet, “in total contravention of police regulations and procedures which allow in such circumstances warning shots in the air at the most.”
The department adds that the Haifa Magistrate’s Court judge found that DIPI’s indictment of the police officer had been justified and that it had acted “appropriately and professionally in conducting the investigation, the decision to file an indictment, and the management of the case.”