Hussein Moyo releases a soft chuckle, sitting on a couch in his home in the Karamaiko area of Mathare, a low-income neighborhood in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. He is watching a video of his late son Yassin, a thirteen-year-old who police shot and killed while enforcing a COVID-19 curfew in 2020.

“This is how he would wake us up every morning,” forty-eight-year-old Hussein says, smiling and showing me numerous videos on his cellphone of Yassin energetically dancing to ’80s American R&B; the young boy, who was attending primary school, is seen excitedly convincing his father, brothers, and sisters to join him, teaching them his innovative dance moves. “He was a very funny boy, full of life.” Hussein’s eyes become blurred with tears as he lovingly sifts through photos and videos of his son.

“If you met Yassin, you would never forget him,” says Hadija, Yassin’s thirty-seven-year-old mother. She is cradling a newborn, whom she gave birth to just two months before my visit. They named the boy Yassin in memory of their slain child. “Our house is cold now,” Hadija continues. “He gave us so much joy. And the police took that bright life away for no reason. Our lives will never be the same without him.”