Police officer threatens Arab-Israeli wedding guests with M16

• Published date: 09 October 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The incident occurred in the town Majd al-Kurum in the Galilee. It began when a number of people complained about the excessive noise coming from the wedding. The police squad arrived at the wedding and confronted some of the guests.

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A journalist who was attending the wedding, Mabda Ferhat, began filming the confrontation on his cellphone but the video shows one of the policemen knocking the phone onto the floor and breaking it.

The video then shows the same policeman shoving one of the guests, after which he pulled an M16 out of his police car, loaded it and brandished it menacingly.

"The policeman began screaming at me and threatening with his gun," Mabda Ferhat, a broadcaster for Radio a-Shams and write in a number of news outlets, told Ynet.

"I have been a field reporter for many years and have a journalist's certificate. I did not bother anyone but the policeman chose to act violently and crossed all the red lines. I did not expect that to happen, it is very severe. A person like that needs to be in prison, not in the police," he said.

Ferhat was injured in the incident and spent a few hours in a hospital.

The incident came a week after two policemen were attacked and lightly...