Mindless killings by police over curfew must come to end now

The police have no right, legal or otherwise, to act as prosecutor, jury and judge.

In a moment of recklessness, a white Minneapolis police officer killed a black man last week, and the US literally went up in flames a few days later. Six days of continuous demonstrations, including one outside the White House, have kept US security forces on high alert, even forcing President Donald Trump to spend some time in a bunker inside the White House.

Kenya is not yet there, but that seems to be the path that officers of the Kenya Police Service are committed to put Kenya on, given their brutality against citizens. Cases of police harassment, beatings and extra-judicial killings have increased exponentially following the imposition of a curfew to contain the spread of coronavirus.