Police on horseback charged at hundreds of ethnic Ethiopian citizens in central Tel Aviv yesterday, as an anti-racism protest descended into one of the most violent demonstrations in Israel's commercial capital in many years, The Guardian website reports today (May 4, 2015).
The protesters -- who included several thousand people from Israel's Jewish Ethiopian minority -- were demonstrating against what they say is racist police brutality after the emergence last week of a video clip that showed policemen shoving and punching a black soldier for no valid reason.
Demonstrators overturned a police car, smashed shop windows, destroyed property, and threw bottles and stones at officers in riot gear at Rabin Square in the heart of the city.
At least 56 officers and 12 protesters were injured, some requiring hospital treatment, police and an ambulance service official said. Forty-three people were arrested. Police used water cannons, stun grenades, and tear gas to try to clear the crowds.
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