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Footage Shows Kenyan Police Fired at Journalist Covering Protests
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08/28/kenya-police-shoot-journalist-protests-finance-bill-demonstration-nakuru/Footage Shows Kenyan Police Fired at Journalist Covering Protests
August 28, 2024
Journalist Catherine Wanjeri Kariuki was wearing a bright yellow hoodie underneath her beige-coloured vest emblazoned with the word “PRESS” when three pellets fired by Kenyan police lodged in her left thigh.
Kariuki is a Kenyan broadcast reporter with Kameme TV and Mediamax. She was standing with fellow journalists at the intersection of Pandit Nehru Road and Kenyatta Avenue in downtown Nakuru, a city in western Kenya, when she was shot with a less-lethal weapon at close range.
Less-lethal weapons also known as non-lethal weapons are often used in crowd control situations by police but can potentially be lethal depending on how they are used.
Footage and images captured at the scene on July 16 reveals that a police officer shot towards a group of eight unarmed people including several journalists from a moving police vehicle.
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August 28, 2024
Journalist Catherine Wanjeri Kariuki was wearing a bright yellow hoodie underneath her beige-coloured vest emblazoned with the word “PRESS” when three pellets fired by Kenyan police lodged in her left thigh.
Kariuki is a Kenyan broadcast reporter with Kameme TV and Mediamax. She was standing with fellow journalists at the intersection of Pandit Nehru Road and Kenyatta Avenue in downtown Nakuru, a city in western Kenya, when she was shot with a less-lethal weapon at close range.
Less-lethal weapons also known as non-lethal weapons are often used in crowd control situations by police but can potentially be lethal depending on how they are used.
Footage and images captured at the scene on July 16 reveals that a police officer shot towards a group of eight unarmed people including several journalists from a moving police vehicle.
[...]