This video has spread around the world, and caused an uproar in Egypt and abroad, particularly the shot where an Egyptian military police officer tears off a female protestor’s clothes and stomps on her open stomach.

Shot at Tahrir Square on December 17, this was also when the military police began firing into crowds of protestors with live ammunition, bringing the death toll to 16 at this point.

The Egyptian military is showing their inability to properly handle large protests; and this greatly undermines their legitimacy in Egypt and abroad. It remains to be seen whether they will make the proper efforts to apologize and reform quickly enough, or if they will continue to lose legitimacy.

It is unlikely the protestors will give up protesting; the military needs to quickly retrain the military police force to respond with the restraint required in an open democracy, until they turn power over to the civilian government. The images from the video above require them to do so.