They cut their hair at Somali barber shops, prayed at Somali mosques and organized themselves along the same clan lines that had divided them for decades, calling on tribal elders to settle family disputes and community rifts.
"Just because you have a Text a Tip hot line doesn't mean these kids will be any more willing to talk to law enforcement," said Barbara Tinney, executive director of the New Haven Family Alliance who has watched the police-community rift for nearly two decades.
The woman at the center of this community's rift is Sara Jane Olson, 52, known in the 1960's as Kathleen Soliah, a member of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army.
Still, the events at Diamond Mountain University, as the place that hosts the retreat is known, have pried open the doors of an intensely private community, exposing rifts among some of Mr. Roach's most loyal followers and the unorthodoxy of his practices.
Jebet, a member of Mr Ruto's Kalenjin community in the Rift Valley, fears that "Kenya has gone back to the Moi era".
"We never expected to sell so many development kits," wrote a Oculus Rift community manager last month after a component shortage forced the company to halt sales of the DK1.
Another official was shot at for trying to stop a cutting ceremony in the Kipsigis community in the Rift Valley highlands.
You can help by volunteering at one of the projects bringing education, healthcare and sanitation to rural communities in the Rift Valley.
The Kikuyu and Kalenjin communities in the Rift Valley, where some of the worst violence took place in early 2008, have enjoyed a fragile accommodation with each other, as their leaders have been running the country together.
Mr Ruto, whose trial began last year, is accused of planning even before the election to set up militias to attack Kikuyus and is alleged to have urged his supporters to uproot the weeds from the fields - referring to communities in the Rift Valley with origins elsewhere in the country.
The report sparked protests in the community and deepened a rift that pitted neighbor against neighbor, with some residents posting signs in front of their doors reading "I'm not a quilombola, no".
