Police investigation exonerates officers whose tear gas canister hit US student
A police investigation has exonerated the border police officers who fired a tear gas canister that hit an American art student during a demonstration in May. The student, Emily Henchowitz, lost an eye in the incident.The incident took place on May 31, when Emily Henochowicz, a student at Cooper Union College in New York, took part in a small protest against the Israel Defense Forces raid on the Turkish flotilla to Gaza that morning.Let's go to the videotape.
Video footage of the incident shows Henochowicz, who carried a Turkish flag, injured from a tear gas grenade. She lost one of her eyes, and suffered several other fractures. Henochowicz has since returned to the United States to complete her studies.
Following the incident, Henochowicz's family filed a complaint to the Judea and Samaria district police which is responsible for investigating the operational activity of the Border Police in the West Bank. The family argued the policeman shot the canister directly at the student, against regulations.
Henochowicz submitted her testimony, as did the Border Police batallion commander, company commander and the officer who fired the canister. The Border Police officers claimed the gas canister only hit Henochowicz after it ricocheted off a barricade. The police investigators claimed this version of events is backed by video footage of the incident. The police case has been transferred to the central district attorney to decide whether charges will be filed.
The district attorney may still decide to file charges against the police officers.
Labels: Emily Henchowitz, Mavi Marmara, Qalandia crossing
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:43 AM
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Could be... but she was where she had no business being in the first place - in the middle of a riot that incidentally, also endangered the police, although the anti-Israel crowd never brings that up. Ms. Henochowitz would still have her eye today if she had obeyed the law.
Everything is the opposite of what it should be.
Why don't leftist Jews like her ever protest the Palestinians eg teaching hatred of Jews in their schools, the Ambassador of "Palestine" to the USA just said Palestine will be a Jew-free state. Why isn't she protesting against Arab human rights violations against the last Jews of Yemen or against the Berbers or Kurds or Western Saharans or Sudanese or Christians in Iraq etc. She's literally a traitor to the Jewish people.
Why don't leftist Jews like her ever protest the Palestinians eg teaching hatred of Jews in their schools, the Ambassador of "Palestine" to the USA just said Palestine will be a Jew-free state. Why isn't she protesting against Arab human rights violations against the last Jews of Yemen or against the Berbers or Kurds or Western Saharans or Sudanese or Christians in Iraq etc. She's literally a traitor to the Jewish people.
Googling this, there are articles saying that her grandparents are Holocaust survivors, her parents (at least one of them) moved to the U.S. in 1960, and that she has dual U.S./Israel citizenship, and that she participated in many protests while she was doing her study abroad thing. I can't find any info on whether she was raised in a U.S. congregation. I would be very curious to know the path of this woman to the point where she feels ok waving Turkish attacker and Austrian (?!?) flags in Israel, while her associates attack the police. The video will be ignored, and I see articles on the google list still saying that the Israeli police aimed straight at her face... This could be an interesting case study if we knew her families' affiliation (or non-affiliation).
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