Aharonovich: Police are not media's 'punching bag'
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich said that he is against "turning the police into a punching bag," but at the same time he opposed the arrest of Daphne Leef.Aharonovich also said that he opposed violence of any kind, whether directed against social protesters or against the police.He noted that he was specifically opposed to some of the force used by police that was videotaped and has been traveling across the airwaves and on the internet, but that he believed that the incidents should be reviewed by the police's internal affairs department and not prejudged by a "trial by the media."The public security minister added that in some of the videotaped incidents, that the footage was incomplete and that police said protesters had thrown stones and eggs at them and vandalized a police commander's car.
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