A Jerusalem court decided in a ruling made public Tuesday that the state was responsible for the death of a 10-year-old Palestinian girl killed by gunfire more than three years ago as she stood some distance from a protest...
...During the decades of Palestinian protests against Israeli occupation, Israeli forces have frequently used rubber-coated steel pellets for crowd control. They usually cause painful but nonlethal wounds, but can also be fatal.
Pellets can also be fatal.
However, the reason the Border Police had to be called to the area in the first place...was?
Well, it happened this way:-
The girl, Abir Aramin, was critically wounded in January 2007 as Israeli border police officers were dispersing a demonstration of rock-throwing youths in the village of Anata, north of Jerusalem. The girl was standing some distance away and was hit by a rubber-coated bullet...So, if rubber-coated bullets can be fatal, could not rocks thrown by Arabs also be fatal?
Yes, they can.
And if so, is there any indirect responsibility involved here on the part of violent Arab demonstrators? That if the rocks had not been thrown, there would have been no need for the Police to use the pellets?
By the way, in other countries, how do the police deal with rock-throwers?
They can be shot in Kashmir:
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - A police officer has told The Associated Press two people have been shot dead by security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir. Paramilitary soldiers opened fire with live ammunition Saturday on hundreds of rock-throwing demonstrators in Anantnag, a town south of Kashmir's main city Srinagar.
They can be imprisoned as terrorists in Turkey:
...thanks to an amendment to Turkey’s anti-terror laws adopted by Parliament on Wednesday...the penalty for children accused of terrorism-related offenses and reforms legislation that had come under severe criticism from human right groups [will be reduced]. Under the reform, children taking part in illegal protests or spreading separatist propaganda will no longer be prosecuted under anti-terror laws. Juvenile courts will handle cases related to those minors. The law also reduces the minimum prison sentence for anyone taking part in illegal protests to six months from one-and-a-half years. Currently 196 children are incarcerated for such crimes.
They can be put on trial in the United States:
Three teens arrested in connection with a rock throwing incident last month in Placer County that seriously injured a man have been charged as adults...
The Placer County District Attorney's Office filed eight felony counts against each defendant which include: one count of conspiracy, one count of battery causing serious injury, three counts of assault with use of a deadly weapon and three counts of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury.
And similarly.
And also in the Solomon Islands you can be shot:-
Tongan soldiers in the RAMSI force deployed to the Solomon Islands have shot dead a Honiara local while responding to a drunken brawl, the police commissioner says. Two Tongan soldiers from the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) force fired an undisclosed number of shots from semi-automatic weapons when under attack by 50 villagers, who police say were throwing rocks, on Thursday morning.
I guess one shouldn't throw stones. It is considered being violent and endangering life and limb.
And one shouldn't be in the proximity of stone throwers.
P.S. (from SoccerDad)
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