Military Resistance 13I1
Palestinian Family Fights Zionist Soldier For Their 11 Year Old Boy:
Child Was Not Involved In Demonstration Because Occupiers Attack Had Broken His Wrist Two Days Previously
30 August 2015 by Sheren Khalel, Middle East Eye
NABI SALEH, West Bank - Nariman Tamimi says she and her son were watching the protest from afar when she noticed something was not right.
The soldiers, who she says would usually block the protest before it could reach the steep hillside of her village, seemed to be encouraging protesters to descend down the slope. By the time she had figured out why, it was too late. She says dozens of soldiers were hiding behind trees and boulders on the hillside, jumping out to capture unsuspecting protesters.
“We saw that the soldiers had my nephew and a foreign activist they were going to arrest, and everyone ran to help them,” Nariman says.
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One of the most shared photos in the series shows Mohammed’s sister, Ahed, 14, biting the hand of the soldier during the struggle to free Mohammed. [See above] (MEE/Abed al Qaisi)
When the other demonstrators ran to the aid of the two protesters who were being arrested, Nariman’s son, Mohammed Tamimi, 11, stayed behind and continued to watch from a distance. That’s when he was captured alone.
What happened next was caught on camera in a series of photos depicting a young boy being pinned to the ground by an Israeli soldier, as the boy’s mother, aunt and sister struggle to pry the grown man off the child.
The photos and video of the incident spread rapidly across social media, catching the attention of international news outlets.
The Tamimi family, who are well-known Palestinian activists, were shocked at how quickly the photos spread.
Bilal Tamimi, an uncle of the boy who was being detained on camera, filmed the entire attack.“(One of my videos) has reached over a million views just today,” Bilal tells Middle East Eye from his family home in the small village of Nabi Saleh just outside of Ramallah.
“I can’t believe it, none of us can. ”Mohammed’s aunt, Nawal Tamimi, who was captured on film desperately pulling and hitting at the soldier’s face and body – trying with all her might to pull the soldier off her nephew – says she’s just thankful the cameras were there.
“These kinds of incidents aren’t uncommon for Nabi Saleh or for Palestine,” Nawal says. “We are thankful people are seeing these photos and seeing what is happening from the occupation, but worse than this happens all the time. If so many people with cameras weren’t there that day they very well could have just shot us and taken Mohammed, it wouldn’t be abnormal.”
The village of Nabi Saleh has organized a weekly demonstration every Friday –without exception – since 2009, in protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, and the confiscation of Nabi Saleh land by the nearby illegal Halamish settlement. The village is known for the intensity of clashes at its protests and the organization of its popular resistance committee. Nabi Saleh’s strong resistance movement means Israeli forces frequently carry out overnight home raids, and clashes there are common.
All of Nariman’s children, even her youngest son, 9, partake in Nabi Saleh’s demonstrations. She says she doesn’t keep her children home during the protests because even in their home they aren’t safe.
In the photos, the young boy being pinned down is wearing a cast on his arm, an injury his mother says was caused when Israeli forces attacked their home only two day before Friday’s incident.
“You can see in the photos he is wearing a cast,” Nariman says. “The soldiers shot tear gas into the house and broke our windows, one of the metal canisters that flew inside hit his arm and broke his wrist. Mohammed wasn’t protesting on Friday because his wrist had just been broken.”
“So, there is no safe place in Nabi Saleh inside or outside, but the children are less traumatized being out there facing their fears than in here hiding, it makes them feel better, psychologically,” Nariman insists.
Photographers were the first to reach Mohammed, capturing the initial moments of the incident on Friday, while screaming at the soldier to release the boy and warning the soldier that the child’s arm had been broken.
Mohammed’s sister, Ahed, 14, was the first to physically come to his aid.
“At first I tried to speak with the soldier to get him to let Mohammed go, but he wouldn’t so I just did anything I could to get him off my brother. Anyone would do the same for their brother or for someone that they love, if you love someone you protect them” Ahed explained.
One of the most shared photos in the series of viral images shows Ahed biting the hand of the soldier during the struggle to free Mohammed.
“I didn’t know what I was doing, I was just doing anything to get my brother free,” she says.
Ahed and Mohammed’s mother who can be seen clawing at the soldier’s face and mask shared the same sentiment.
Nariman arrived at the scene right after Ahed.
In the video, before she reaches the struggle between her two children and the soldier, she can be heard screaming “My son, my son,” repeatedly. “I wasn’t thinking about anything but getting that soldier off of my son, no matter what,” Nariman says when asked if she was at any point scared of possible consequences for getting physical with an Israeli soldier.
“That soldier’s machine gun was just dangling there next to my son’s head and his hand was around his throat.”
When Nariman saw the photos for the first time she says she went through a whirlwind of emotions. “I was laughing and I was crying. At first I was laughing when I saw me and my daughter’s faces when she was biting the soldier and I was pulling at him and at the look on that soldier’s face,” she exclaims.
“But when I looked and realized the fear on Mohammed’s face I just cried. No mother wants to see their child’s face have that kind of fear.”
While Mohammed looks terrified in the photo, he quickly discounts the notion that the incident might have been the scariest moment of his eleven-year-old life.
“The scariest moment of my life was not on Friday,” Mohammed explains, picking at the frayed cloth on his casted arm. “It was when I was nine. The soldiers came to the village in the middle of the night and there weren’t any journalists to see and we ran from them, but the older kids were faster.
”Like on Friday, Mohammed and had been split off from the group, the rest of his older cousins had made it up a hill, but he and another cousin were still at the bottom, with soldiers closing in, he says.
“The soldiers were going to arrest us, but our cousins started throwing rocks and we got away, but when I got to the rest of the guys they shot my cousin right in front of me. That was the scariest time, not yesterday.”
Nariman is no stranger to intense situations, but she says any mother would do what she did out of instinct, regardless of the risks.
“If you are a mother you will protect your children without thinking. Even if a cat sees something hurting its young she will attack, and that is what I did,” Nariman insists with fervor.
“They weren’t just trying to arrest him, the way the soldier’s hand was around my son’s neck he could have killed him.”
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POLICE WAR REPORTS
Family’s Attorney Says Police Shot Seneca Teen From Behind:
“His Car Was Not Moving, Contrary To Police Reports That The Car Veered Toward The Officer”
“It Is Physically Impossible For Him To Be Trying To Flee Or Run Over The Officer That Shot Him”
“It Is Clearly, Clearly From The Back”
Seneca Police Lt. Mark Tiller was the officer who shot and killed 19-year-old Zachary Hammond (pictured) in the parking lot of Hardee’s restaurant, Chief John Covington said Friday. (photo: Greenville News)
July 31, 2015 by Ron Barnett, The Greenville News
A lawyer representing the family of a Seneca teenager who was shot by police Sunday night said the autopsy shows that Zachary Hammond was shot from behind and his car was not moving, contrary to police reports that the car veered toward the officer during a drug sting.
Eric Bland, a Columbia attorney hired by Hammond’s parents, said he has requested the state Attorney General to call for a statewide grand jury investigation into the incident.
“It is clearly, clearly from the back,” Bland said after viewing pictures of the bullet wounds at the coroner’s office Wednesday. “It is physically impossible for him to be trying to flee or run over the officer that shot him.”
Seneca Police Chief John Covington on Wednesday stood by the account told him by the officer who was attempting to make a drug arrest that night, explaining that the shots were fired from near point-blank range into the open driver’s side window.
“He actually had his hand on or very close to the car, possibly pushed off from the car,” Covington said.
But the teen, he said, “was not shot from behind.”
“The attorney wasn’t there either,” Covington said. “He’s got to put his spin on things.
“His clients are the parents and they’re grieving. I understand that. My heart goes out to them.”
The car, which was driven by the 19-year-old Seneca High School graduate, was turning toward the officer as if to run over him and the officer fired in self-defense, the chief said.
The officer has been placed on administrative leave while the State Law Enforcement Division investigates the shooting, which is standard in any police shooting.
Bland said the autopsy indicated that the first shot went into Hammond’s left rear shoulder, throwing him forward in the car, and the second one went at a downward angle into his side from the rear, through his heart and lungs and leaving out his lower right side.
The entry wounds were five inches apart, he said.
“The shots were so close in proximity to each other that it would be physically impossible unless the car was stopped and the officer came up very close to an open window,” Bland said.
“Picture a car going 20 miles an hour and I’m fortunate enough to get a shot off, and I hit you —there’s no way I can get the second shot if the car’s going 20 miles an hour,” Bland said.
Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis released a statement Tuesday saying Hammond died from a gunshot wound to the upper torso, but the statement didn’t indicate if the bullet came from the front or back. He referred questions to SLED, the Seneca Police and the 10th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.
Tori Dianna Morton, 23, of Pickens, was in the car with Hammond but wasn’t hurt. She was arrested for possession of marijuana.
Covington said the officer approached the car with his gun drawn, as is common practice in making narcotics arrests.
An undercover officer had arranged a drug buy to lure Morton into the parking lot of Hardee’s restaurant on U.S. 123, according to an incident report.
The report says the officer executed a search warrant and found a bag of marijuana in the car. It makes no mention of the shooting. Covington said the officer will file a statement later.
Both the officer and the city have hired lawyers for the case, the chief said. “Ultimately, it would appear it’s headed toward litigation,” he said.
Pretty Boy Floyd
[Another Point Of View]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BQJgq3R-Ew
Messing With Major:
“Retaliation?”
“Sure Looks Like It”
Aug 20, 2015 by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio
His name is Major -- (his real name)--Major Tillery of West Philadelphia.
Although he had a reputation as a gangster, in prison such things matter little. It’s as a jailhouse lawyer that he shook the prison walls in the case known as Tillery v. Owens, a ground-breaking prison conditions case where double-dealing (or the placement of four men in a cell) was declared unconstitutional.
The prison medical department was declared unconstitutional and living conditions in part of the prison were declared a violation of the constitution.
Shortly after his glorious win, Major Tillery was sent to a prison in another state;
Retaliation?
Sure looks like it.
Several months ago, Major saw me in the library, and expressed shock at my appearance, my carriage, and my level of wakefulness. He argued with me, insisting I go to the prison infirmary.
I resisted, saying I was ok, or would be in a few days. Major said, “Dude - I’m looking at you - your skin is shedding; you are so tired you can’t stay awake. You ain’t cool, Mu!”
He went further. He walked up to the prison superintendent, warning him that if Jamal wasn’t hospitalized immediately, he might die.
The warden responded, “I suggest you worry less about another prisoner, and more about yourself.”
Major responded immediately: “That’s what I’m doing, cuz that’s my brother - and I want for my brother what I want for myself!”
From that day forward, Tillery was hit by daily harassments, daily shakedowns, and he was removed from his job of Peer Facilitator.
He was transferred - first to the other side of the prison, and soon thereafter, to nearby SCI- Frackville. Once there, he got another surprise: he received a misconduct for drug-trafficking (of suboxone), using stamps. He was given 6 months in the hole!
Here’s the only problem with such a charge. At Frackville (as in Mahanoy), all stamps are ripped off of envelopes by the mailroom before prisoners receive their mail.