{"id":57996,"date":"2024-06-26T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T08:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/obamas-half-sister-hit-with-tear-gas-in-tuesday-anti-finance-bill-protests\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T08:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T08:03:19","slug":"obamas-half-sister-hit-with-tear-gas-in-tuesday-anti-finance-bill-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/obamas-half-sister-hit-with-tear-gas-in-tuesday-anti-finance-bill-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s half-sister hit with tear gas in Tuesday anti-Finance Bill protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tr-story-p1\">Kenyan activist Auma<span class=\"highlight\">\u00a0Obama<\/span>, the half-sister of former U.S. President Barack<span class=\"highlight\">\u00a0Obama<\/span>, was among protesters tear-gassed on Tuesday during demonstrations outside the parliament building in Nairobi, a CNN interview showed.<\/p>\n<p>Police\u00a0opened fire on demonstrators\u00a0trying to storm Kenya&#8217;s legislature on Tuesday, with at least five protesters killed, dozens wounded and sections of the parliament building set ablaze as lawmakers inside passed legislation to raise taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Auma<span class=\"highlight\">\u00a0Obama\u00a0<\/span>was taken aside in the melee by a CNN reporter and asked why she was there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here because &#8211; look at what&#8217;s happening. Young Kenyans are demonstrating for their rights. They&#8217;re demonstrating with flags and banners. I can&#8217;t even see anymore,&#8221; she said, beginning to cough and shield her eyes from the spreading smoke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are being tear-gassed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A man behind her carried a sign reading, &#8220;Colonialism never ended in Kenya,&#8221; while another yelled, &#8220;This is our country. This is our nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Auma<span class=\"highlight\">\u00a0Obama\u00a0<\/span>earlier posted photos of herself on Twitter at the protest.<\/p>\n<p>The office of former President<span class=\"highlight\">\u00a0Obama\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tr-strong\">said it had no immediate comment\u00a0<\/span>o<span class=\"tr-strong\">n<\/span>\u00a0the incident involving\u00a0<span class=\"tr-strong\">Auma<span class=\"highlight\">\u00a0Obama<\/span><\/span>\u00a0or the violence in Kenya.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan activist Auma\u00a0Obama, the half-sister of former U.S. President Barack\u00a0Obama, was among protesters tear-gassed on Tuesday during demonstrations outside the parliament building in Nairobi, a CNN interview showed. Police\u00a0opened fire on demonstrators\u00a0trying to storm Kenya&#8217;s legislature on Tuesday, with at least five protesters killed, dozens wounded and sections of the parliament building set ablaze as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}