Probably many of the male onlookers weren't too happy with this policewoman.
Watch a female cop in Egypt beat down a sexual harasser
A screengrab from a video that shows a female police officer arresting an alleged sexual harasser.
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CAIRO, Egypt — For women in Egypt, crowds have become synonymous with sexual harassment and assault.
Since the revolution in 2011 it's become a familiar story: survivors describe getting separated from those they are with and mobbed by crowds of men. Hands find every part of their bodies; blades cut away clothes and women can no longer distinguish who is attacking and who is trying to help.
This Eid al-Fitr holiday following Ramadan, a holy month of fasting, was no different. Cairo’s streets were clogged with revelers and a local action group called “I Saw Harassment” reported intervening in 77 instances of verbal harassment and 28 cases of physical harassment on one day of the holiday alone.
But as awareness has increased the government has, sometimes grudgingly, begun to address the phenomenon.
In a video that went viral over the weekend, a female police officer is shown arresting a man for sexual harassment. The video, which aired on the popular Youm Sabih channel and was uploaded on July 19, shows the police officer tugging the alleged harasser by the front of his yellow shirt through a crowd of jostling and screaming onlookers.
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Watch a female cop in Egypt beat down a sexual harasser
A screengrab from a video that shows a female police officer arresting an alleged sexual harasser.
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CAIRO, Egypt — For women in Egypt, crowds have become synonymous with sexual harassment and assault.
Since the revolution in 2011 it's become a familiar story: survivors describe getting separated from those they are with and mobbed by crowds of men. Hands find every part of their bodies; blades cut away clothes and women can no longer distinguish who is attacking and who is trying to help.
This Eid al-Fitr holiday following Ramadan, a holy month of fasting, was no different. Cairo’s streets were clogged with revelers and a local action group called “I Saw Harassment” reported intervening in 77 instances of verbal harassment and 28 cases of physical harassment on one day of the holiday alone.
But as awareness has increased the government has, sometimes grudgingly, begun to address the phenomenon.
In a video that went viral over the weekend, a female police officer is shown arresting a man for sexual harassment. The video, which aired on the popular Youm Sabih channel and was uploaded on July 19, shows the police officer tugging the alleged harasser by the front of his yellow shirt through a crowd of jostling and screaming onlookers.
Continue reading at:
Watch a female cop in Egypt beat down a sexual harasser GlobalPost
