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• Criminal police state

  “The NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau investigated the incident and cleared the cops of wrongdoing”.

  Of course they were cleared, since why shouldn’t they beat him up just because they could have easily arrested him with 2 cops against 1 guy? Cops are always supposed to beat up and shoot people, It’s about time people realized that cops do what they want and the lowly surfs have to just take it like the dirt that the Police and politicians think they are.

• Confused by oximoron

  How could the (criminal) cops be cleared of wrongdoing yet the city still feels it’s better to settle and give Ehud $100,000, isn’t that contradictory?

  • No Contradiction

    Civil liability and criminal liability are 2 different standards. At least it will be tax free money.

• really?

  And the africans get millions and what’s going to happen to the cops

• not enough

  Just looking at the smile on the cop makes me want tp throw up.

• typical

  That’s backwards the city doesn’t pay for anything its the taxpayers and we didn’t do anything wrong. The cops should be the ones paying.

• rdz

  the police were cleared in a criminal case. the city was concerned that they would later be sued in a civil case. the standards of burden are different in the two. since it is a lot easier to win money in a civil suit, the city decided to pay some money no rather than going to court and maybe losing more money, including trial expenses.

• mussy

  to Little should of at least got a few mil

  • LM

    One of the charges upon his arrest was drug possession, so while the beating was extremely unfortunate, he is not a tzadik who deserves millions. The $100K exceeds one year of take-home pay for practically everyone in the community and is more than 2 or 3 years of take-home pay for many. One who has studied hilchos nezikin knows that the procedure for awarding monetary damages in the event of an assault is very methodological, e.g. if one ch”v cuts off another’s hand, bais din assesses how much a person would pay to have had it removed by medical means instead. Had police beaten someone during the times of the Bais Hamikdash, it is extremely unlikely bais din would have awarded the victim anywhere near the equivalent of $100K.

  • Milhouse

    How does being charged with drug possession make him any less of a tzadik than he would have been otherwise? First of all, being charged with something doesn’t mean it’s true. Second, even if true it’s not an aveira and doesn’t affect a person’s tzidkus (or lack thereof).

  • Milhouse

    CF the famous story of Reb Levi Yitzchok Barditchever on Pesach, when he showed that the community had plenty of smuggled contraband, but no chometz. There is no issur in possessing contraband. Hashem doesn’t give a d–n about it.

• LO

  Someone should post this on the NYPD facebook page

• he could have gotten more,

  Ehud wanted to settle, and get money now as apposed to 5 years from now

• say

  this is damages for psychological hardship, which her certainly must have experienced. Police are here as public servants, and they need to know how to behave in such a situation. I hope that it will give some structure to the behavior of the police when they deal with these situations

• Leah G

  2 against 1 and that one sleepy….no reason for beating, but who knows the entire story.
  Cops are not always goody 2 shoes, but they also do a lot of good work and community service and protection….so…..victim can donate his money if he chooses and cops also had a close call, and maybe learned to think twice, but hopefully in time before it is bad for them….Also…who called them to the centre…shul in the first place

  • solution

    You drank too much on purim. Your speech is still slurred.

• with all do respect

  if he would of listen to the officer request to leave this hole incident would have not happened. civilized people respect there parents principals trenchers and police officers Ehud Halevi had no respect for all the above mentioned a man sleeping on the couch in the women’s section ? any honest man knows that sounds not good at all that couch is deemed impermissible and absolutely forbidden to use while praying however any police officer should always call for backup when someone is resisting arrest instead of beating him as you can see that was counterproductive

  • shlomo

    You dont know what you are talking about, guys stay in aliya all the time I slept there for 6 months when I was a bochur besides he had permission to sleep there and it was the middle of the night hes fine im happy he finaly got what he deserved

  • Milhouse

    Civilised people respect policemen?! This is America, not the USSR or the Third Reich. Nobody has any duty to respect policemen, or to obey their “requests”. Policemen as a class are lowlifes. Notorious perjurers and bullies.

• solution

  If the police wouldn’t have acted like bullys and criminals, this would have been averted. Sucks for the tax payer, but happy for Ehud.

• avrumi

  i think he was wrong. he resisted multiple times. if he had an issue he could have resolved it in the poliv station. i would never have awarded him or any other person that resists a $1.

• Montrealer

  It’s to bad they settled for so little.
  The city definitely got away cheap.
  This is to bad, this case should have been able to make him a rich man )-:

• What?????

  After watching this video, how can it be that the police were cleared of wrongdoing???!!!

• Crown Heights Resident

  The $100,000 should come from the NYC police officers pocket.
  Not the New York State taxpayers.
  Since the NYC Police Officer who committed the Police Brutality needs to learn to treat people with respect.

• Truthseeker

  They may have been cleared in this reality but Hashem is watching closely. If you think Ehud got a beating just wait until their souls are punished and tormented for their sins when they go through the fires of GEHENOM…and to a Jew? Do you think they apologized afterwards? Did Teshuva? Asked for any forgiveness whatsoever? Nonsense. Probably just the opposite. They better enjoy every moment they have left here.

• Anonymous

  You sound very confident in your judgement.

• Anonymous 2

  Funny how the government & it’s enforcers come down on our civil rights and abuse their power so readily. If they insist we jump through hoops for our 2nd Amendment and others, a cop should in turn be assessed vigorously on behavioral patterns and moral code BEFORE he/she/it is issued a badge !!

• jewish dude

  Give the money to the rabbi of the shull. He needs it more because a lot of people depend on him.