When President William Ruto took office in 2022, he pledged to end police brutality.
Three years on, he has instructed officers to shoot violent protesters "in the leg".
Over the past year, Kenya has been grappling with waves of demonstrations, initially over economic stagnation and corruption but later broadening out to police violence, a long-standing issue in the country of 55 million.
The protests have been met with increasingly fierce repression, rights groups say, leaving dozens dead.