Hi,
While the judicial reform is progressing slowly (now it the Reasonability Law which about to pass in the beginning of next week), I found myself with police fear.
It followed my arrest last week, which I have not yet told you about. I was standing in the head of a group of protestors on the edge of the slope going down to Ayalon Highway to the South.
A couple of hundred meters to the south, another group was going down and pulled the police force towards it. I was starting to go down the slope, and one of the policeman noticed me and a couple of them climb towards me.
When they got up to me, about halfway up, they stopped me and asked me to go back up. I said it is not yet the road, and I can stand here. “So you are not going up?” said the policeman, and when understanding the group of the protestors is still up l, I said I was going up and turned around.
At this point, five policeman push me to the ground and tell me I am under arrest. I was pushed down the road and was set down by another protestor who had a flag. My rights were read to me, and we started walking alomg the road.
At some point, the officer probably felt it was enough. He wrote down our names and ID numbers and sent us up from the road and promised we would be called for invistigation.
Not till today I understand I have police fear. I do not look at policemen the same way I looked at them before. It took me a while to get down to Ayalon Highway today, and I did not stay there for long.
I guess that if I would go down running to the road and pushed down and arrested, it is one thing, while you are being arrested for nothing, just to show the rest of the group not to go down without real reason.
Take Care
Gad
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