Solomon Teka was shot and killed while hanging out with friends in a playground in northern Israel.
The father of Solomon Teka, an 18-year-old Israeli of Ethiopian descent who was killed by an off-duty Israeli police officer on Sunday, mourns over his son's body during his funeral in the Israeli coastal city of Haifa on Tuesday.
An autopsy conducted before Teka’s funeral on Tuesday was inconclusive, leaving open the question of the trajectory of the bullet that killed him, and if it was aimed at his chest, where he was struck, or whether it ricocheted from the ground, as the police officer claims, according to leaks to Israeli media.
Following the Pakada incident, a committee led by the justice ministry’s director general found that police disproportionately targeted Israelis of Ethiopian origin, with higher rates of arrests, indictment and incarcerations than other Israelis.
The community has long roots in modern Israel, but according to statistics published in 2016 by the Brookdale Institute in Jerusalem, most of the 100,144-strong community arrived in two dramaticRelatives and friends of Solomon Teka mourn during his funeral in the Israeli coastal city of Haifa on Tuesday.
“Solomon, when he came to Israel, was a good boy who respected his environment and his parents,” one of his relatives, Itay Ashatu, told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “There are kids who are products of the difficult reality they’re in. Every teenager who comes from Ethiopia who’s defined as ‘on-the-edge’ is a good person underneath it all, but the reality is difficult and there are things that aren’t taken care of.”and walk around feeling secure,” Ashatu added in the same interview.
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