{"id":107566,"date":"2026-05-11T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/107566\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T02:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:04:09","slug":"just-like-clockwork-police-violence-is-exposed-officers-play-the-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/107566\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Like Clockwork: Police Violence Is Exposed, Officers Play the Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">A former public defender recalls how police routinely used assault claims to justify brutality, arguing the beating of prosecutor Saleh Na&#8217;ameh reflects a wider culture of impunity fueled by political backing \u2013 and warning that unchecked police violence could endanger Israel&#8217;s democracy<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">As a young defense attorney, I once represented a man who was suspected of assaulting a police officer. The police claimed that the man resisted arrest and caused an injury to the policeman&#8217;s hand. They even showed the judge a medical report when they applied for the arrest warrant. My client claimed that he was actually the one who was assaulted \u2013 punched and kicked. But who will believe the suspect when a bunch of police officers say otherwise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former public defender recalls how police routinely used assault claims to justify brutality, arguing the beating of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[9860,1722,37,2742,8750],"class_list":{"0":"post-107566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-arab-israelis","9":"tag-human-rights","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israeli-politics","12":"tag-itamar-ben-gvir"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116553492906364267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}