autism

Hundreds of demonstrators in Haifa protest the recent Israeli police killing of an unarmed autistic Palestinian man, Iyad el-Hallak, on Tuesday, June 2 , 2020. Protesters in Israel and the United States have sought to link police violence in both countries. (Mati Milstein/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Israeli police commander said he ordered partner to hold fire in shooting of autistic Palestinian man

Officers have said they mistook a cellphone in Iyad Halak’s hands for a weapon and started running when ordered to stop.

Mother of Palestinian man with autism killed by police calls for footage of his death to be released

“If it were an Arab shooting a Jew, the video would have been published worldwide the same day, but in my son’s case, they will not release anything,” Iyad Halak’s mother, Rana, said.

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I can’t see my son who has autism in person because of the coronavirus

“I can’t locate the words to describe the way my heart is breaking and that a pit in the bottom of my stomach hasn’t left since I got this news,” a mom says.