The Israel Police appeared on Monday to threaten legal action against Hadash-Ta’al MK Ahmad Tibi unless he apologizes for insulting its head spokesman.

During a TV interview on Channel 13’s news broadcaster, the Knesset member called police spokesman Aryeh Doron derogatory names. The two were arguing over a police officer’s killing of a Bedouin man during a midnight raid on his house in the Negev village of Tarabin al-Sana on Saturday night.

Tibi echoed claims made by the victim’s older brother, who was present at the scene of the shooting, that police tampered with evidence at the crime scene by washing away the blood from the floor. The officer involved in the shooting has been placed under house arrest as the Department of Internal Police Investigations probes the matter.

“That’s how the mafia works, not the police,” said Tibi during an interview to the TV station on Monday from the Knesset, regarding the alleged crime scene tampering.

Doron, who was in the Channel 13 studio,........

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