JERUSALEM (AP) — A Jerusalem court has convicted two Israeli police of negligent homicide for leaving an injured Palestinian man on a roadside, where he was found dead two days later.
The case has raised questions about the failures in the justice system that led to his death. The man was passed among medical, prison and police officials before he died.
According to court documents, Omar Abu Jarban, a car thief who illegally resided in Israel, was injured while driving a car he stole in 2008.
A hospital turned him over to police, and after a prison clinic refused to treat him, police abandoned him on a roadside near the West Bank. Abu Jarban’s dehydrated body, still wearing hospital pants, was found two days later.
A sentencing date was not set.
