At least three people are dead as angry crowds confront police in Egypt for a second day following a deadly soccer riot.

Protesters are beginning to gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo, something that's been a regular occurrence on Fridays since the Arab Spring, Time magazine's Abigail Hauslohner told CTV's Canada AM.

"We're expecting to see the square fill up with a lot more people so there's a potential for more violence," she said Friday.

The protesters blame police and the country's military rulers for failing to halt violence after a Wednesday soccer game in Port Said that killed 74 people.

Although there's no evidence of a police conspiracy in the riot, Hauslohner said there's a deep mistrust of law enforcement since the ousting of former leader Hosni Mubarak.

Egyptians are also frustrated because the country's police force has yet to be reformed and there's a perception they're not doing their jobs, she said.

"The police force under Mubarak was notoriously corrupt, was trained (for the most part) to crack down on dissenters and do crowd control at protests," she said.

It also tortured suspects in custody and was accused of taking bribes, Hauslohner said.

The country remains plagued by poor policing and security, likely one of the causes of the deadly riot, she said.

A volunteer doctor in Egypt said one man died Friday in the latest violence in the capital, while two other protesters were killed earlier in the day in Suez.

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