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Some villages whose residents had participated in the violence were fined and a few rioters were brought to trial.
When three Jews, including a policeman, were convicted of participating in the murder of Arabs, international outcry ensued.
Although the Supreme Court ultimately acquitted them on grounds of self-defence, the incident served to continue the crisis of confidence between the Jewish community and the British administration.
Toufiq Bey al-Said, who resigned from the Jaffa police, was shot in the street ; his assassin was dispatched by veterans of Hashomer in retribution for Brenner's murder, though another Jewish man was wrongly accused and acquitted.
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