End SARS - Wikipedia
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End SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad) is an anti-police brutality movement that originally started in 2017 as a protest against the corruption and brutality focused on Nigeria's special SARS police department which is a special department that often operates masked or in plainclothes to combat crimes as diverse but still related such as armed robbery and car jacking to cattle rustling and kidnapping. Founded in 1992, they have been a controversial unit also accused of extrajudicial killings, extortion, kidnapping and other corrupt practices as well as police brutality.
On October 3rd a video showed a Nigerian teen being shot and killed by a SARS police officer and his Lexus SUV acquired by law enforcement. This caused a resurgence of the End Sars movement including a social media presence that also promoted the #ENDSARS hashtag which gained over 30 million tweets within a week of the incident.
As the protests spread worldwide, other narratives also popped up including a north-south divide on the issue:
#ENDSARS: There is no North-South divide | African Arguments
SARS is as vicious and corrupt in northern Nigeria as it is in the south. Claiming otherwise is false. Over the past two weeks, Nigeria saw unprecedented protests that defied ruthless force and pressed the country’s president to relent by announcing the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery...
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LGBTQ+ and Feminist activists trying to co-opt or subvert the movement:
And as of a few hours ago an assassination attempt that may have been related to this ongoing fallout:
End Sars protests: Osun governor escapes 'assassination attempt'
The governor had joined the anti-police brutality protesters when a group of people opened fire.
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