Top Arab MK to be charged with beating cop at West Bank fence

[Mosby]

Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided on Sunday to indict Israeli Arab MK Mohammed Barakeh for allegedly attacking a policeman during a demonstration at the West Bank separation fence.

Barakeh, chairman of the Israeli Arab party Hadash, is suspected of having assaulted a member of the Israel Prisons Service's elite Masada unit at a protest in the West bank village of Bi'ilin in 2005.

The policeman was taking a detainee to a police car at the time of the alleged assault.

Mazuz was also considering including on the charge sheet the crimes of offending a public servant and issuing threats, offenses which Barakeh is alleged to have committed s at two other demonstrations.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125054.html

[Sezu]

1. Violent offenders get what they deserve.

The man is a disgrace; a lawmaker who breaks the law.