The police are meant to protect the citizens from any forms of attack or violence. Their core function is to ensure that the law is upheld at all times. But what happens when the citizens gang up against them?
The citizens in Kenya have a negative perceptive about the police. This after the incidences of rogue police mishandling citizens. Most innocent lives have been lost in the hands of police and has always created that aspect that police is an enemy of the people.
Just a few months the police was brutally clobbered by the protesting teacher. The video sparked a lot of social media up roar.
The cases have become rampant. They are on the rise each and every day.
The 42-seconds clip shows the driver of the rickshaw, plate number KTWB 757D, furiously hurling stones at the two policemen as they fled for their safety.
Whatever transpired between the officers and the Tuk Tuk driver is yet to be established. The attacker floored one of the officers, ostensibly after a wrestle.
Kenyans React To Video Of Tuk Tuk Driver Stoning Traffic Police – Video https://t.co/h3uusyy1wK pic.twitter.com/9om4CIakIW
— Robert Alai (@RobertAlai) November 25, 2018
He gets into his vehicle and starts driving off, seemingly in an attempt to run over the cops. The officers fought back by throwing stones at the irate driver.
The traffic police seemed unarmed and were overpowered by their attacker.
At one time when such attacks were rife, an order was issued allowing traffic police officers to be armed.
It is as I said earlier. KENYANS are very frustrated. We will soon vent through all ways and means possible. Life has become almost unbearable yet it is 2018 when we are supposed to be better off than what we were in 1970. Katambe sasa pic.twitter.com/cajbwaJnsh
— Lord Abraham Mutai (@ItsMutai) November 25, 2018
A number of social media users condemned the attack on police officers, saying Kenyans must respect the crown.
Others said the driver’s situation mirrors that of millions of Kenyans frustrated by police officers’ excesses.
Do you think mwananchi should take action on their hands to attack the police?