NAIROBI – Residents of a slum in Kenya's capital have protested the death of a homeless man who they said was killed by police for violating a dusk-to-dawn curfew for the coronavirus.
Hundreds of people in Mathare left their homes and burnt tires on the streets Monday night in the latest outrage over alleged police brutality.
Dominic Njagi said he couldn't understand why police shot his brother, 51-year-old James Mureithi. “The pathologist I talked to said my brother was shot twice; one on the legs and the other on the chest,” Njagi told The Associated Press. “The pathologist said the chest wound was at close range." He said Mureithi was a university-educated automotive engineer who suffered a mental breakdown after divorcing his wife 10