Police in Kisumu had allowed anti-IEBC protesters to access electoral commission’s offices before the demonstrations turned ugly.
ODM national Deputy Organising Secretary Rosa Buyu who led the protests was asked by the police, who had cordoned off the IEBC offices to select five representatives to be allowed into IEBC offices.
The police peacefully engaged the protesters who had approached the electoral body's offices with their hands in the air.
It was while Ms Buyu was talking with the police that a member of the crowd threw a stone at the officers, prompting them to fire in the air.
The crowd reacted by pelting stones at the officers using slings.
In the running battles, one person was killed and over seven others including a four year old boy was killed.
Before the crowd regrouped and staged a second wave against the officers, the police were relatively calm, and only drove the crowd back into town.
This was an unusual deviation from the past push of protesters completely out of town.
The police also only used teargas twice before the crowd became destructive.
They destroyed water hydrant used by the town’s fire brigade and set on fire a van used as a mobile shop.
But it was until the crowd started throwing stones at commercial buildings in an attempt to loot that the police mete out force.
Last week the Law Society of Kenya Kisumu branch said they would offer free legal representation to victims of the anti-IEBC protests in suing the IG for compensation.