A chilling video making rounds on social media has captured the horrifying moment a protester was shot dead at close range during anti-police brutality demonstrations in Nairobi.
The man, reportedly a hawker, was ambushed by two armed and masked police officers and shot outside a building along Moi Avenue.
The daylight execution, witnessed and recorded by multiple journalists, has left the country stunned.
In the now-viral footage, the man, who appeared unarmed and alone, lay in a pool of blood as shocked onlookers screamed in disbelief.
“Wameua! Wameua!”,protestors chanted in anguish. A fellow demonstrator was seen holding up a spent cartridge to the cameras, a grim symbol of the growing culture of police impunity.
The officer who fired the fatal shot was masked, making identification difficult. His partner, also covered, fled the scene.
The victim’s identity remains unknown at the time of reporting, but several hawkers who knew him were seen weeping beside his body, devastated by the brutal and unprovoked act.
Enraged and grieving, protestors lifted the body and carried it through the streets, demanding justice. Their anger was palpable, a spontaneous march of mourning and fury, driven by yet another life lost to unchecked police violence.