Mohamed Mahmoud video

Brutal video from the area from yesterday (except for the part with the clubbing of civilians, which happened a few days ago, and the night conversation between the police official and the protestors, which is stamped November 20).

From about 3:00 or 4:00 to the end, it’s non-stop video of police firing all over the street, which I know as well as the street I grew up on. It’s very disturbing. You can see a sniper on the roof of Bon Appetit café, where I usually go for a harmless coffee and ice cream sundae when in the area, or sometimes a bowl of pasta. Now it’s literally a war zone on that street, though oddly, Tahrir itself remains fine. Even the tear gas is gone from there now.

Incidentally, there’s also a pet shop next door to the Bon Appetit, and no one knows if the animals were ever taken out. I hope they were.