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A policeman is caught on video while beating and pepper spraying a civilian sentry at the gate of the Shomron community of Michmas.

The guard questioned why he is compelled to open the electric gate for the police vehicle on Shabbos, which appears to have resulted in the policeman losing it and then assaulting the civilian guard and spraying him with pepper spray. As the policeman beats the civilian he states the civilian is assaulting him, seemingly trying to justify his violent response.

Ultimately, a second person, who videoed the brutal beating was arrested too for threatening the policeman verbally, that he will “finish him” by filing the appropriate complaints with the Justice Ministry police investigations unit.

Despite the cop’s brutality, they managed to preserve and release the video that says it all.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)