Using morbid humour to stay alive, but also to remind that youth have nothing to lose

Here protestors probably decided to consult Word War 1 fallen soldiers on survival tactics on the battlefield at the World War 1 Memorial Stature along Kenyatta Avenue during Justice For Albert Ojwang Protests on June 17, 2025. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard]

Multiple memes appeared online as youthful protesters imagined their demise—as potential victims of police brutality— and memorialisation. There are multiple ways of looking at these communications, first as critiques of police violence as an act of dehumanisation, but also taking power off police guns.

Only hours earlier, Prezzo Bill Ruto and his Interior Cabinet Secretary had hailed the police for doing a great job of “protecting” the nation and its people and urging them to deal “ruthlessly with criminals.”