An Iraqi father charged with attempting to “honor kill” his teenage daughter outside of her Washington high school appeared to care more about his car than his daughter as he was being arrested, new bodycam footage shows.
Ihsan Ali allegedly choked his 17-year-old daughter to the point of unconsciousness and punched her boyfriend in the face outside of Timberline High School in Lacey in October because she refused to marry an older man in another country.
A chilling new video of the aftermath shows Ali yelling in Arabic to wife Zahraa Ali, who has also been charged, appearing concerned about police stealing their car as he’s being escorted by cops into the back of a cruiser in handcuffs.
“Zahraa, Zahraa, come here,” he yells, according to a transcript of the arrest translated by the Daily Mail
He called to another daughter, Haneen, and his wife 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 again.
Ali’s attacked daughter told police that “her father had recently been threatening her with honor killing for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man in another county,” according to charging documents previously obtained by The Post.
She had run away from home and sought help from school staff on Oct. 18, which outraged her parents who then showed up and attacked her — some of which was caught on camera.
As Ali choked his daughter, other students — including the girl’s boyfriend — desperately tried to pry her away, the documents alleged.
“It’s not right … you are not supposed to do this,” her father told her with his hands around her throat before she blacked out, the girl told police.
The girl escaped with her boyfriend, running to the school’s main office screaming, “My dad was trying to kill me” — prompting a school lockdown as school staff blocked the girl’s parents from getting inside, according to court documents.
Later in the video, Ali asked police if he could see the daughter he’d just allegedly tried to kill, according to the Daily 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 before the cop slams the car door.
Ali, 44, and his wife 40, were charged with attempted murder, attempted kidnapping, and assault.
The boyfriend’s father, Victor Barnes, said that his family has have been issues with the Alis for months — including an alleged physical altercation that forced them to get a temporary protection order.
Honor killing is a practice in some societies in which family members justify killing a person, usually a woman, by claiming the victim has brought dishonor to the family, according to Britannica.
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