The Border Police company commander, Sharon Mannor, said in his testimony – taken three days after the incident – that he deployed four to five teams, and that two of them (one in the area of Antenna Hill and another on the hill behind the mosque’s forecourt, where Anderson stood) were using crowd dispersal weapons. The police did not bother interrogating the policemen who shot Anderson. About five months later, attorneys for the families were allowed to view and photocopy the investigation file – at which point a massive hole in the investigation was discovered.
On September 30, 2009, the prosecution announced it had closed the case without any explanation as to why. Three days after the incident, the Samaria and Judea (West Bank) Police District began an investigation. Tristan Anderson, before and after being hit in the head with an Israeli tear gas canister. Everyone agrees that Anderson was not involved in any violent activity or any other provocation during the demonstration. He needs constant supervision by his parents.
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After a series of long treatments in Israel, Anderson’s life was saved but he remains handicapped and suffered severe brain damage. A team of the Palestinian Red Crescent tried to remove him to a hospital, but our brave troops held them for a long while at a checkpoint. As a video taken there shows, tear gas canisters kept dropping around him.
The demonstration was winding down, and the Border Police were conducting their usual chase after stone throwers on a nearby hill, nicknamed “Antenna Hill.” Without any warning, a tear gas canister smashed into Anderson’s brow. Anderson, an American citizen, came to Ni’lin to document the weekly protests there. On March 13, 2009, Tristan Anderson was standing in the forecourt of the mosque in the village of Ni’lin. Masked Israeli Border Police officers (Illustrative photo: Oren Ziv/)
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