Fights and low-level riots erupt in Tel Aviv during an Ethiopian-led protest against alleged police brutality toward the minority group.
According to reports in Hebrew-language media, a number of fights have broken out near the rally at Rabin Square and groups of protesters are throwing chairs and other objects at local businesses.
Earlier, the demonstrators blocked a major Tel Aviv highway and paraded through the streets protesting what they consider to be systemic police mistreatment of the minority group. They carried signs saying “Police are killing Beita Yisrael,” a Hebrew term for the Ethiopian Jewish community.
Earlier this month, a policeman shot dead 24-year-old Yehuda Biadga, a mentally distressed man wielding a knife in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam. Israel’s Justice Ministry is investigating the incident.
Biadga’s family accused police of excessive force, and protest organizers called the incident “the straw that broke the camel’s back” after years of perceived discrimination by Israeli authorities.
— with AP
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