Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt due to Islamist president Mohammed Morsi's seizure of nearly unlimited power. Police fired tear gas into crowds to hold back protesters gaining ground on the palace, the president escaped home through a back exit while crowds grew bigger. The crowds pushed over a fence to provoke the gas but now they are closer to the palace, the police weren't doing much else to stop them. Also protesters hijacked a armored police van which they used to wave flags on top of it. In a another city called Alexandria 10,000 people rallied chanting slogans about their president and his fundamentalist group; the Muslim brotherhood. The reason for the protests is because Morsi was passing a draft charter stating that he will have sweeping power over the judicial branch giving him overwhelming power.
There were 200,000 protestors in Cairo alone, their goal was to have the president take back the draft charter. They believe that this is the last warning or else the palace will be stormed.
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