{"id":196965,"date":"2025-04-28T11:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T09:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-police-identified-in-protest-killings-as-anti-ruto-sentiment-grows\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T09:51:17","slug":"kenya-police-identified-in-protest-killings-as-anti-ruto-sentiment-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-police-identified-in-protest-killings-as-anti-ruto-sentiment-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Police Identified in Protest Killings as Anti-Ruto Sentiment Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>&#8220;Now that the BBC has been able to unmask killer cops through their uniforms &#8211; even with their faces covered &#8211; they have nowhere to hide. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re always in civilian clothes!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Members of Kenya&#8217;s security forces responsible for shooting unarmed anti-tax protesters dead during the June 2024 demonstrations outside Parliament have been identified by a BBC investigation. A forensic analysis of more than 5,000 images and videos confirms that those killed posed no threat when security forces&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504280175.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now that the BBC has been able to unmask killer cops through their uniforms &#8211; even with their faces covered &#8211; they have nowhere to hide. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re always in civilian clothes!&#8221; Members of Kenya&#8217;s security forces responsible for shooting unarmed anti-tax protesters dead during the June 2024 demonstrations outside Parliament have been identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":196966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650895:c33e7b9956fee24e640b1ad64ad3c5a4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,51234,9886,13340,4688,430,6612,257,662,2194,15134,254],"class_list":["post-196965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-grows","tag-identified","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-killings","tag-news","tag-police","tag-protest","tag-sentiment","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650895:c33e7b9956fee24e640b1ad64ad3c5a4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}