NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenyan and American protesters knelt outside the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, one morning last month, angered by George Floyd`s killing in Minnesota. But they were also furious about police abuses at home, in Kenya. Protests sprang up all over town. In the large slum of Kibera, in front of a large mural of Floyd, residents chanted, `Stop killing us.` In front of Parliament, youths carried caskets to protest extrajudicial killings. `The image of George Floyd`s death was so visceral, so violent,` said Lilly Bekele-Piper, an Ethiopian American who lives in...
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