This article was in the Los Angeles Times. The author of this article is Amro Hassan. In 2010, Khaled Said was brutally beat to death in an Internet cafe. He was beat because he posted up a video of corrupt officers distributing drugs and money from confiscated criminals. Now, a year later those two police officers Sgt. Awad Suleiman and patrolman Mahmoud Salah Mahmoud were found guilty for manslaughter in the coastal region of Alexandria. They will face seven years behind the bars. He was an activist-blogger, and it was after his efforts that they went against the reign of Mubarak.
Police brutality is becoming more and more common, and it is a world wide topic now. I think that an end should come to this quickly. Innocent people who are just doing their jobs are dieing for no absolute reason. We should all make effort to stopping this madness. This usually happens more in the Middle East, because they do not have freedom of speech or press like we do. However, the good news is that these dictators are slowly being brought down. Now finally these writers could have their freedom in publishing whatever they want about the corrupt government. An end should come now, and we could help bring that end.
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