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Kenyan crackdown

Shashank Bengali works for McClatchy newspapers and is based in Nairobi. He blogged about recent events in Kenya and took a number of snaps of the local media on the job recording what was happening. Here's the clip for the snap above,
Photog gets a closeup of the police van that was firing teargas and (we think) blank rounds to scatter protesters. The protesters would run away, then return a few minutes later, singing and dancing and taunting the police. This went on for several hours as journalists watched. link