Jerusalem – Israel’s Supreme Court has doubled the sentence of a former border policeman who was convicted in the death of a stone-throwing Palestinian teenager in 2014.
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The court on Sunday upheld a state appeal for a longer sentence, extending Ben Deri’s imprisonment from nine months to 18 months.
The Jerusalem District Court ruled in April that Deri unjustly opened fire during demonstrations in the West Bank, killing 17-year-old Nadim Nuwara.
The court ruled Nuwara did not pose an immediate threat to Deri’s life, and that he negligently loaded live rounds instead of rubber coated bullets typically used to disperse demonstrations.
Deri agreed to a plea bargain that dropped the charge from manslaughter to causing severe bodily harm and death through negligence. He was also ordered to pay the victim’s family $14,000.
18 months for killing? Nice kangaroo court. In the USA u go 18 yrs if u get caught in a white collar crime even by mistake.
Shameful kangaroo court, kowtowing to the PC police
Stupid politically correct liberal court. The sentencing of soldiers and border policemen who have to deal with life-threatening situations from the wild Arab mobs will only serve to squelch Israel’s defenders from acting.
1-2-3-4- Only Brooklyn leidig geers know the Laws of Israel, what is good for Israel.
Citizens of Israel,have you gone mad? why do you tolerate this murderous insanity,not only does this TRAITOROUS leftist pathetic cowardly government of Pipi NothinYahoo not protect it’s country and people,but actively sides with it’s deadly enemies against their own young soldiers who put their lives on the line to protect their God given Eretz Yisroel.
There is only one solution,you MUST RISE UP by the millions and vomit out this traitorous leftist gangster regime and hang them on the gallows for the crime of high treason,and replce it with a loyal Jewish government that will be willing to defend its own country and it’s citizens
He loaded live ammunition. This means he planned to kill someone that day. The fellow he did kill was probably picked out more-or-less at random. A man like this may kill again. Society must be protected from people like this.
The Israeli supreme court is above the law. It somehow has taken upon itself being the new god of Israel and can tell the government what it can do and what it can not do.
Now I understand the rosh tavot of Elul: Oiy L’rasha Oiy L’schkainov
#8 When you make a mistake and kill someone, well that is pretty well what manslaughter means.