Ahuvia Sandak probe heats up as Honenu produces eye-witness

• Date: 29 December 2020
• Published date: 29 December 2020
• Author: YONAH JEREMY BOB
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Sandak was killed last Monday when the vehicle he was in flipped over while fleeing from police and while the police either accidentally collided with his car or purposely tried to force his car to stop.

Early evidence indicates that Sandak was not the driver and that he may not have been wearing a seat belt at the time.

The Post has learned that the current police narrative is that the passengers in the car, a mix of minors and young grown-ups, were throwing rocks at moving Palestinian vehicles and even hit and harmed one Palestinian.

According to this view, the harmed Palestinian could instead have been killed just as Palestinian woman Aysha Rabi was killed by alleged stone throwing by a minor Jewish extremist in October 2018. Witnesses started to be called in that case this past October.

The police narrative then would say that the rock-throwing Jewish activists left the scene to avoid arrest. At a later point, their way forward on the road was blocked by police who had been informed that the rock throwers could be traveling in their direction.

Rather than be arrested at the makeshift roadblock, the police version could be that the activists in their car suddenly lurched to the left to go around the police.

Next, the police pursued them in a dramatic car chase.

According to the police, during the chase the activists' car wove wildly between lanes to manage to escape being caught and the police wove along with it.

However, Honenu put out a detailed video on Monday of a woman, whose face was obscured, describing how the police car was out of control and could have even hit her.

The woman said that she felt that the police car driver was not even paying attention to other cars on the road like hers and that she felt endangered by the wild driving by the police.

Questioned about whether the woman had or would provide official testimony to police, Honenu said the issue had not been decided.

A major issue in parallel to the specific issues in the case, is that Honenu and its supporters do not trust the Police Investigations Department to internally investigate their own.

Honenu says that PID would just whitewash police conduct.

Further, it says that police questioning of the surviving activists from the car accident to date is a problematic attempt...