The images are of police officers attacking a civilian in Mathare, Nairobi in 2014.
This post on X(formerly Twitter) accompanied by images purportedly showing police officers brutally attacking a man in Kware, Pipeline area of Embakasi in Nairobi, is FALSE.
The post, shared on July 13, 2024, was accompanied by three images showing a man being attacked by a police dog and police officers. Other police officers are also captured in the background.
The post reads: “Breaking news: If this post appears on your timeline kindly retweet. These are pictures from the quarry yesterday. This police have an inhuman act. Let us expose them. This is Totally unacceptable(sic).”
The post and photos were linked to the discovery of bodies that had been found dumped at Kware dumpsite in Nairobi’s Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums on July 12, 2024. Police officers dispersed a crowd which was furious and shocked at the discovery of bodies that were dismembered, wrapped in sacks, and black polythene bags.
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The post emerged following this turn of events claiming that the man in the photo was caught and brutally beaten by the police officers in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga area and was shared amidst widespread anti-government protests in Kenya where protestors accused the police of brutality and called out the government over its inaction in reigning in the police force over the violence.
WOKN looked into the post and found, through reverse search image, that the pictures(also archived here) were first shared on December 13, 2014 by Kenyan activist and photographer Boniface Mwangi under the hashtag ‘KOTSecurityLaws’. Mwangi noted that the photos had been taken in Mathare, Nairobi.
This fact-check was written by Woman Kenya Network fact-checker Trizah Mmwanda and edited by Woman Kenya Project lead Shadrack Agamira.The article was approved for publishing by…
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