The police continue to say that Monday\'s events in Hevron are \"under investigation\" - though the residents of Hevron say they already know exactly what happened. They maintain that two plain-clothes policemen came with an arrest warrant for a local 21-year-old resident, burst into a day camp center with guns drawn, and aroused a panic amongst the children when they jumped wildly on the \"suspect,\" swung wildly, and dragged him out. The residents also say that while this was going on, one of the waiting police cars drove over an 11-year-old boy\'s foot, and did not move even while the boy cried and yelled at the driver. The boy later recounted, \"He just said, \'Good, good,\'\" adding that the driver didn\'t move the car until the \"suspect\" (who was released a few hours later) was thrown into the car.
When asked for his response, Nati Goldfinger, spokesman for Public Security Minister Uzi Landau, said that the matter is under investigation, and that the relations between the police and the residents are \"not simple.\" Arutz-7\'s Yosef Zalmanson asked, \"What is the Public Security Ministry doing to solve this problem in general? The residents say that the long history of troubles between them and the police is all due to the \'special regulations\' that are in force against them; what is your reaction?\"
Goldfinger responded that the appointment of Col. Moshe Givati to act as a \"mediator\" between the police and the residents \"shows the importance that Minister Landau attributes to this problem. The residents made their case on this matter to Minister Landau, who related to it with utmost seriousness and understands the problem... There is no question that it is a serious matter...\" He could not give a time frame as to when the problem might be solved, however.
When asked for his response, Nati Goldfinger, spokesman for Public Security Minister Uzi Landau, said that the matter is under investigation, and that the relations between the police and the residents are \"not simple.\" Arutz-7\'s Yosef Zalmanson asked, \"What is the Public Security Ministry doing to solve this problem in general? The residents say that the long history of troubles between them and the police is all due to the \'special regulations\' that are in force against them; what is your reaction?\"
Goldfinger responded that the appointment of Col. Moshe Givati to act as a \"mediator\" between the police and the residents \"shows the importance that Minister Landau attributes to this problem. The residents made their case on this matter to Minister Landau, who related to it with utmost seriousness and understands the problem... There is no question that it is a serious matter...\" He could not give a time frame as to when the problem might be solved, however.