The Department for Internal Police Investigations, the body responsible for conducting criminal probes into police officers, has begun looking into an incident in which a member of the Yasam riot police unit was filmed beating ultra-Orthodox men last week, a spokesperson told The Times of Israel on Saturday.

The footage filmed on Thursday appeared to show an armored police officer repeatedly striking a group of young men with a baton, driving them up a set of stairs and into a building during a riot in Jerusalem.

“There were a number of videos submitted for review by DIPI,” the spokesperson said, confirming an earlier report by i24 News regarding the investigation.

The DIPI operates under the State Attorney’s Office, which itself is an independent agency operating under the Justice Ministry.

Hundreds of members of the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, community clashed with police on........

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