'There's also the media.Some of them hate Muslims. 'Some of them are people who don't understand what's going on,' Mohamed Sudan, a foreign-relations official in the Brotherhood's political party told me on Wednesday morning. Morsi inherited a nearly impossible situation upon taking office, and a broad coalition of nefarious forces conspired to ensure his failure. The Brotherhood tells itself a very different - and largely fanciful - story. By January, rising havoc forced the military to assume control over three Suez Canal cities. It is a widely held position: In the months that followed, large and often violent protests were as frequent as they were widespread.

A woman sitting on a plastic chair next to her agreed.' This was the day we decided we couldn't take it anymore,' she said. 'The constitution was the breaking point,' Magda Yaacoub, a protester in her late 50s, told me in Tahrir Square on Tuesday. Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood colleagues dispatched Brotherhood cadres to attack the protesters, and seven people were killed in the fighting.

When mass protests erupted in response, Mr. 22, when he asserted unchecked executive authority through a constitutional declaration and, weeks later, rammed an Islamist constitution through to ratification. Morsi exerted virtually no real control over state institutions, particularly the military and police, and was increasingly a president in name only. Yet the officers' rebelliousness also illustrates the very reason why the collapse of the Morsi government was inevitable: Mr. Morsi from power only hours later reflects the thoroughly undemocratic nature of this week's political developments in Egypt. The brazen participation of police in the massive uprising that catalyzed the military coup forcing Mr.

'It gathered all types of people together - the police, the army, all the Egyptian people, and the judges.' But if President Morsi doesn't step down, I asked, will you leave the streets and continue reporting to him? 'If he doesn't step down,' the cop replied, 'we are still with the people.' 'This is the best revolution that ever happened in the history of our entire country,' the lieutenant told me. Now, barely two years later, uniformed officers stood alongside many of the same protesters who had once been the target of police tear gas. It was a bizarre sight: Egypt's notoriously abusive police force was among the chief targets of the 2011 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. Police that suffocated protesters with tear gas in 2011 were now standing alongside them.Īt the end of the long boulevard leading up to the Egyptian presidential palace in northern Cairo, a uniformed police lieutenant joined many thousands of protesters in demanding President Mohammed Morsi's ouster on Wednesday afternoon.

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