Ego games between a parking lot guard and police officers in a civilian police vehicle ended with the guard being arrested.
Serious assault on the manager of the Lev Ha'ir parking lot in Herzliya (archive)
The guard, who merely wanted to maintain order, ordered the policemen, who arrived at the parking lot off-duty, not to park their car in a place designated for a particular patrol car. After some discussion, he ended up in custody, but the court released him and criticized both the police and the guard.
These are police officers who arrived at the Cinema City parking lot in Jerusalem in a civilian patrol car with a police license plate. There is organized parking for a particular police car, and the guard in the parking lot has been instructed that no vehicle, not even a police one, can park in that parking lot. The police officers who arrived did not heed his request not to place their car where they had placed it, and an exchange ensued. The guard himself did not deny touching his leg in the police vehicle, and as a result the officers forcibly restrained him, detained him and then arrested him.
Police car, archive, photo: Marco
The next day, the guard was brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for an extension of his detention, where the police requested that he be remanded in custody for five days. The police representative claimed that the guard, according to the officers' description, pointed a triple finger at them several times, spoke rudely to them and even kicked the patrol car (although no sign of this was found). His attorney, Attorney Moti Regev of the Public Defender's Office, argued that his client was beaten by the police and used violence against him, and asked for his release.
The judge, David Shaul Gabbay Richter, accepted the defense attorney's request and released the suspect to his home on bail. "This is a 25-year-old man with no criminal record and no grounds for dangerousness arise under these circumstances. I believe that if the suspect and the police had acted sensibly, this incident would have been prevented."
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