A quick lunch can be grabbed at any hot dog stand or fruit vendor along the street.

The 26-year-old Tunisian fruit vendor only wanted to make a living.

Maybe the fruit vendor was selling bad dates, because if he was, then this whole thing is okay, isn't it?

A nearby fruit vendor takes care of another green spot.

"There was no need to shoot him like that," said the fruit vendor, who refused to give his name.

In a series of interviews, the other fruit vendors, officials and family members described the seemingly routine confrontation that had set off a revolution.

"What would you do if you weren't a fruit vendor?"

Or, as she put it one recent morning, "I never go out of my way for a fruit vendor."

The fruit vendors can sell those for 59 cents.

"We are at war with America," a fruit vendor said.