Khaled Said's death enraged many Egyptians, who went out on demonstrations protesting his brutal murder; Amnesty International urged the Egyptian government to investigate the killing of this young man; and the government claimed he was a criminal. Khaled's murder is summarized again on the Facebook English page:
أغضب مقتل خالد سعيد العديد من المصريين الذين خرجوا إلى الشوارع للتظاهر احتجاجاً على قتله بهذه الوحشية.