Kenyan Police go through a lot in their line of duty daily. From being subjected to danger while dealing with hardcore criminals, the Kenyan Police now also have to deal with the public who have at times turned wild against them
From being insulted on Social Media, Kenyan police have also had to deal with Physical insult inflicted on them by Kenyans.
Remember the viral video of a Kenyan Police that was clobbered by a teacher in Kericho?
Then came a video of police officers being man handled by a tuk tuk driver who later takes off.
These are just a few cases of Police-Civilian brawls witnessed in the recent past in the country.
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Meanwhile, a tuk tuk operator caught on camera on Sunday fighting two police officers claims the law enforcers had destroyed his auto rickshaw’s windscreen and side mirrors.
The tuk tuk owner said even after one of the officers used a club to smash his side mirror and windscreen, they attempted to beat him up and he had to defend himself.
The two officers, he said, had stopped two other tuk tuks and were collecting money. When they saw him, he said, they flagged him down.
“The officers had stopped two other tuk tuks and I could see them receive money. They saw me approach and one signaled me to stop,” he said.
He says he had just slowed down and wanted to stop when one of the officers hit his side mirror and smashed the windscreen. He said after stopping, he asked the officer why he had smashed his side mirror but the officer kept mum.
“I asked for the second time why the officer smashed my side mirror but the officer could not explain,” he said.
He could not bear the pain of having his tuk tuk’s side mirror and windscreen smashed and he turned to the officers who were now calling for a towing car to drag his machine away. “I got annoyed and demanded to be given answers, as they tried to intimidate me, saying there was nothing I could do to them,” the man said.
His now viral video has elicited various reactions from Kenyans with some praising him for his “heroic” act while some have called for the Traffic Police to be armed so as to avoid such kind of confrontations between them and the public.
Should the Traffic Police be armed with guns?