Police launch internal probe against cops who told protester ‘I’ll rape your mother,’ clashed with MK

The Department of Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) says it has opened probes into a police officer who was recorded telling a demonstrator that he would rape his mother and other officers who clashed with an MK.

In Jerusalem, at the weekly protest at Paris Square, outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence last night, the officer was filmed cursing and threatening a protester he detained, telling him “I’ll rape your mother” and calling him a “son of a bitch.”

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DIPI also says it is investigating officers filmed in a confrontation with Labor MK Naama Lazimi. Lazimi was shoved and grabbed by police officers, despite the parliamentary immunity granted to her as a Knesset member.

She told media outlets that “police officers assaulted” her and pulled her hair while she was trying to help another protester.