Five days after Floyd’s murder, Israeli police killed an autistic Palestinian man

Evidence

Sometimes, the connections are so obvious that little effort is needed to make them. Five days after George Floyd was killed, an autistic Palestinian man walking to his special-needs school in the Old City of Jerusalem was gunned down by Israeli police. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1126

Five days after George Floyd was killed, an autistic Palestinian man walking to his special-needs school in the Old City of Jerusalem was gunned down by Israeli police. … At thirty-two, Eyad Hallaq was fifteen years younger than Floyd but was profiled on account of his color and identity. Police chased the disabled man, who had routinely told his mother how much he “fear[ed] passing the police on his way to class.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1126

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s frame in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ about cross-cultural moral panics as signaling, and the domestic/foreign repression nexus.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1126