Jackson Kuria Kihara, alias Cop Shakur, has reportedly been apprehended by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) at the Kahawa Law Courts.
Kuria was apprehended on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 30, as he was on his way to the court in support of Patrick Osoi, a former Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldier and US Army veteran who was apprehended a day earlier.
The former Kenya Prisons Service officer was stopped by officers on his way to the Kahawa Law Courts, where he filmed the entire ordeal.
In the video moments before he is said to have been detained, Cop Shakur is heard in a verbal confrontation with the officers while inside his vehicle.
At one point, Kuria is adamant he would not surrender to authorities since they allegedly failed to provide grounds to detain him.
However, moments later, several activists took to social media to demand his release while confirming that he had been picked up and taken to the DCI headquarters along Kiambu Road.
In the hours leading to his apprehension, Kuria was vocal against the arrest of his counterpart Osoi, as he accused the state of intimidation tactics.
Cop Shakur gained nationwide attention at the height of the anti-finance bill protests in 2024 when he tempted fate by siding with the protesters, most of whom were young people popularly known as ‘Gen Zs.’
He took to the streets with a placard bearing anti-Ruto slogans. As a result of his actions to oppose the government that employed him, Shakur's salary was halved as punishment.
Nearly a year after his acts, he took to social media in May to claim that he had been dismissed from the Kenya Prisons Service (KPS).
His alleged detainment came just hours after Osoi’s apprehension on Tuesday evening. The ex-KDF soldier’s communications team has since confirmed that he was apprehended on suspicion of preparing to commit a felony.
Osoi, who had previously served as KDF Special Forces Soldier, NIS officer, and a US Army Veteran, announced earlier in July that he would be coming together with other cops with the same vision to form a movement dubbed the Fighting Brutality and Impunity (FBI) movement to defend victims of extrajudicial killings.
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