This evening, Chief of Israeli police, Moshe Karadi, criticized what he terms as the hypocritical festival of media criticism of the police.
Karadi is refering to how the media is criticizing the way policemen exhibited serial-rapist, Benny Sela, when the latter was captured last Friday after being at large for two weeks following his escape from captivity.
Sela was displayed before video cameras in live broadcast as he was held by a few policemen, handcuffed and obviously in pain. Sela was captured in the northern town of Naharia. One particular moment showed how policemen dragged Sela's arms down from his face so that the camerapersons would have a clear view of him. Sela protests that he had been beaten repeatedly by the police (a complaint that today has been informally substantiated by an anonymous witness on one of Israel's news programs).
Karadi acknowlegded that some of the images were unpleasant but stated that the media itself requested to be present at the Naharia station and the media displayed those images on live television, so he feels that criticism from that direction is unfair.
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