{"id":82300,"date":"2020-07-07T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T02:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=82300"},"modified":"2020-07-07T10:12:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T02:12:57","slug":"covid-19-kenyan-protesters-set-fire-to-police-station-after-man-killed-for-selling-fake-hand-sanitiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=82300","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Kenyan protesters set fire to police station after man killed for selling fake hand sanitiser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Kenyan-protesters-set-fire-to-police-station-after-killing-1000531?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/331\/33101821.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kenyan protesters set fire to police station after killing\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Kenyan protesters set fire to police station after the killing&nbsp;of&nbsp;a hawker<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAIROBI, July 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Kenyan protesters set a police station on fire after an officer allegedly shot and killed a man for hawking fake hand sanitizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer is now in custody, according to a police report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police officer fired his weapon after a verbal argument with the man selling the counterfeit product in an open-air market in Kisii County, western Kenya, on Sunday, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the shooting, protesters quickly descended on the police station, throwing rocks and setting bonfires, damaging the station and nearby vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourteen police officers were injured and protesters dispersed after an \u201cunquantified number of live and blank ammunitions were used\u201d, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accusations of police brutality are common in Kenya. Since the coronavirus outbreak, multiple cases of alleged police violence towards lockdown violators have been reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, in the first 10 days of a curfew to curb the coronavirus, at least six people were killed, according to rights group Human Rights Watch. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan protesters set fire to police station after the killing&nbsp;of&nbsp;a hawker NAIROBI, July 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Kenyan protesters set a police station on fire after an officer allegedly shot and killed a man for hawking fake hand sanitizer. The officer is now in custody, according to a police report. The police officer fired his weapon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":82303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}