An Israeli court has acquitted a police officer over the shooting death of an unarmed, autistic Palestinian man in occupied East Jerusalem. Iyad al-Hallaq was a 32-year-old special needs student who attended and worked at a school near where he was shot dead in Jerusalem’s Old City. His killing in May 2020 drew comparisons to the police killing of George Floyd in the United States. On Thursday, a judge threw out the charges against the officer — whose name was not made public — calling the killing an “honest mistake.” Iyad’s mother, Rana al-Hallaq, said the family was surprised by the ruling.

Rana al-Hallaq: “It’s injustice. I never saw injustice like this against a young man like my son. My son is buried in the cemetery, and the killer is free and can travel around.”