WRAP Students protest death of fellow student ADDS looting

(10 Mar 2009) SHOTLIST 1. Wide shot of university students marching through street in protest 2. Protesters passing by camera 3. Protesters running around camera, some holding tree branches 4. Wide of protesters on street 5. University student lying on the road, gets up then lies down again and then gets up and starts walking 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eric Mwembesa, University of Nairobi student: "Yeah, you know, we are just demonstrating because one of our colleagues was killed by the police. That one we are sure of. He was a second year at the University of Nairobi. We are University of Nairobi students, so we are just demonstrating. We want the police, especially the police commissioner to tell us what is really happening because they are telling us they have arrested three police men concerning the shooting of the student." 7. Wide or university students protesting outside the police headquarters and chanting, UPSOUND: (English) "Ali must go" 8. Closer of the same 9. Close-up of students holding bullet casings and saying, UPSOUND: (English) "They use these to kill, yes, they use these to kill" 10. Police officers in front of the Kenyan President's office, pan to university students burning a government banner 11. Wide of burning banner and protesters on street 12. Wide of students running/zoom in, AUDIO: glass breaking 13. Students running, some throwing looted goods 14. Zoom out of people looting a shop, AUDIO: cheering and glass breaking 15. People looting in a restaurant 16. Close of broken glass and destroyed cake fridge of the restaurant, woman clearing the mess STORYLINE: Youths threw stones at police officers and looted stores and cars following a march by about a thousand university students through the Kenyan capital on Tuesday to protest the deaths of a fellow student and two activists who were researching extrajudicial killings when they were shot last week. Youths threw stones as officers tried to disperse the crowd. Some also broke shop windows in the city centre and began stoning and looting passing cars outside a Nairobi police station. Taxi drivers began throwing stones back, sparking a stampede among pedestrians. The protesters carried banners and chanted slogans demanding the resignation of Police Commissioner Mohammed Hussein Ali. The student was killed by police during a protest on Thursday against the killing of the activists outside one of the residence halls at the University of Nairobi. Three policemen were arrested over that death. "We want the police, especially the police commissioner to tell us what is really happening because they are telling us they have arrested three police men concerning the shooting of the student," explained Nairobi University student, Eric Mwembesa, as the demonstration took place. The police commissioner has said that authorities were investigating all possibilities regarding the killings of the activists, whose deaths came a week after a United Nations expert accused Kenya's police of running death squads during a crackdown on the notorious Mungiki gang. The police commissioner has repeatedly dismissed charges of police links to hit squads. Many of the students on Tuesday also wore black T-shirts with political slogans demanding legislators pay taxes on their fat salaries or the resignation of parliament - a sign that grievances from different groups might be converging. Kenya's coalition government has only been in power for a year but it is already embroiled in a series of financial scandals at a time when the price of staple foods is rocketing and millions of Kenyans are at risk of hunger. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...