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Nairobi \u2014 One viral image shared by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua \u2014 an AI-generated photo showing dozens of people walking on crutches \u2014 summed up the outrage.<\/em><\/p>\n A wave of memes mocking President William Ruto’s controversial directive for police to shoot protesters in the leg has flooded social media, with critics accusing the Head of State of endorsing brutality in the face of growing dissent.<\/p>\n One viral image shared by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua \u2014 an AI-generated…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 One viral image shared by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua \u2014 an AI-generated photo showing dozens of people walking on crutches \u2014 summed up the outrage. A wave of memes mocking President William Ruto’s controversial directive for police to shoot protesters in the leg has flooded social media, with critics accusing the Head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":202109,"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\/00670846:36eea154851fc9754a2f9a60a1fb2d45:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,51836,9137,51835,4688,430,14728,257,662,35212,12640,32473,254],"class_list":["post-202108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crutch","tag-directive","tag-immobilize","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-memes","tag-news","tag-police","tag-rioters","tag-rutos","tag-scorned","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670846:36eea154851fc9754a2f9a60a1fb2d45:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202108","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=202108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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