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Find lasting solution to police killings in Kenya

Save for the recent killing of Willie Kimani and his two colleagues in which a police woman is among those charged with the offence, most police killers are male.

NAIROBI: As human rights defenders fight to end runaway police killings in Kenya, incidents of police killings are being reported in the United States of America with striking similarities, particularly in the manner in which the media cover the shootings.

“Four suspected thugs shot dead at City Cabanas, two pistols recovered”, went a headline of a Kenyan newspaper on August 11, 2016.

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