On video: "What do you want?": The confrontation between the policeman and Ron Levitt/Walla system!
An attempted arrest of scooter riders who were riding without a helmet on Herzl Street in Tel Aviv, this evening (Saturday) turned into a confrontation between the police officer and one of the riders - Ron Levitt, 29 years old from Jaffa - who claimed to be post-traumatic after surviving the Nova Barai party. In the documentation obtained by Walla, Levit is seen shouting at the policeman: "I was in Nova, my friends were murdered."
"We were riding a scooter, both of us without a helmet, the policeman asked to stop, I came to get off the bike path towards the sidewalk and he thought we were coming to run away or run over him as he said," Levit described in a conversation with Walla and shared: "When I'm attacked like he did, I get all the post-trauma, it's Not the first case."
Levit continued: "He asked me to identify myself, I told him that I lost all my things in Nova, I told him to write down my number and he insisted. I came to leave, I didn't understand what he wanted. I told him that I didn't want to run away or anything. He strangled me and beat me."
"In Nova, I ran away for five hours while they were shooting at me - since then I haven't really recovered," Levit shared with Walla, "During the incident, I wanted to show the policeman the psychiatrist's documents. Even if I committed a traffic violation, that's no reason for him to treat me like that. I've been to many demonstrations in my life, I've been kidnapped , but this time it's different - there's no reason for the policeman to act like that. He behaved in a scary, inhuman way. If he's acting like that, he shouldn't be a policeman."
In the documentation, Levitt is seen being pushed by the policeman who tries to handcuff him and demands: "Bring your hands." Levit replies: "For what, brother?". And the policeman tells him that he refuses to be arrested. The debate at this point gets heated when Levitt raises his voice and shouts: "I don't refuse. Accept with a committee, I don't refuse anything. What do you want from me, brother? Move from me. What do you want, brother? I'm post-traumatic. I was in Nova, what do you want? Documents from a psychiatrist? Take it A document from a psychiatrist is moving away from me. You maniacs murdered my friends."
Levitt's friend also intervenes and turns to the policeman: "He saw his friends holed up on the floor." Levit continues during the confrontation: "What are you going to stop me for? Move. You have no heart. Get off me, brother, I will not attack you, you are attacking me. What are you, a Palestinian Arab? What are you?"
At this point the confrontation becomes violent and the policeman knocks Levit to the ground in order to handcuff him. Those present at the scene who see the confrontation approach and try to separate and calm Levitt. "What is he doing? I'm not breathing?" Levitt shouts as the officer tries to shackle him to the ground. For a guest approaching and trying to calm Levit down as well. The policeman turns to him and asks him to help him identify him. "I want to identify him, give him a report, and release him - that's what I want. The guy is drunk, he has alcohol."