Coronavirus: Videos emerge online of police brutality amid lockdown around the world

As police forces across the world are given special powers to impose lockdowns online videos emerge showing some prevention measures turning violent. Kenyan police have used tear gas to disperse a crowd as people tried to board the last ferries to leave Mombasa hours before the curfew and more recently to stop traders. In South Africa, water cannons and rubber bullets were also used against people unable to social distance living in crowded townships where social distancing is impossible. While Rwanda w
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