An Iraqi father charged with making an attempt to “honor kill” his teenage daughter outdoors of her Washington highschool appeared to care extra about his automotive than his daughter as he was being arrested, new bodycam footage exhibits.
Ihsan Ali allegedly choked his 17-year-old daughter to the purpose of unconsciousness and punched her boyfriend within the face outdoors of Timberline Excessive Faculty in Lacey in October as a result of she refused to marry an older man overseas.
A chilling new video of the aftermath exhibits Ali yelling in Arabic to spouse Zahraa Ali, who has additionally been charged, showing involved about police stealing their automotive as he’s being escorted by cops into the again of a cruiser in handcuffs.
“Zahraa, Zahraa, come here,” he yells, based on a transcript of the arrest translated by the Every day Mail
He referred to as to a different daughter, Haneen, and his spouse to “take the car from [police] and drive it away so they don’t steal it. They took the car! They’re going to steal it!”
“The car… they’ll steal it!” he yells once more.
Ali’s attacked daughter instructed police that “her father had recently been threatening her with honor killing for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man in another county,” based on charging paperwork beforehand obtained by The Publish.
She had run away from residence and sought assist from faculty employees on Oct. 18, which outraged her dad and mom who then confirmed up and attacked her — a few of which was caught on digital camera.
As Ali choked his daughter, different college students — together with the woman’s boyfriend — desperately tried to pry her away, the paperwork alleged.
“It’s not right … you are not supposed to do this,” her father instructed her along with his fingers round her throat earlier than she blacked out, the woman instructed police.
The woman escaped together with her boyfriend, operating to the college’s foremost workplace screaming, “My dad was trying to kill me” — prompting a college lockdown as faculty employees blocked the woman’s dad and mom from getting inside, based on court docket paperwork.
Later within the video, Ali requested police if he might see the daughter he’d simply allegedly tried to kill, based on the Every day Mail.
“You will not speak to your daughter,” the arresting officer tells him. “We’re investigating a criminal investigation right now.”
“Just let me tell her to come home … If I tell her to go home, she will go home,” Ali pleads earlier than the cop slams the automotive door.
Ali, 44, and his spouse 40, had been charged with tried homicide, tried kidnapping, and assault.
The boyfriend’s father, Victor Barnes, mentioned that his household has have been points with the Alis for months — together with an alleged bodily altercation that compelled them to get a brief safety order.
Honor killing is a follow in some societies through which members of the family justify killing an individual, often a lady, by claiming the sufferer has introduced dishonor to the household, based on Britannica.
