A violent Obama-led protest on Tuesday ended with police firing teargas into the crowd of Black voters enraged by tax hikes and economic inequality, CNN reports, with the half-sister of the 44th president of the United States among those blinded by the noxious anti-riot chemical agent.
“I can’t even see anymore, we’re being teargassed,” Auma Obama told a CNN camera as she was hit with the stinging white cloud fired by cops in Nairobi. The Kenyan-British activist, half-sister to Barack Obama, had been marching alongside a column of youth demonstrators as part of the “7 Days of Rage” general strike. “I’m here because look at what’s happening. Young Kenyans are demonstrating for their rights. They are demonstrating with flags and banners,” Obama said.