Updated: Show me your hands. Police video shows death of Stephon Clark in a hail of gunfire [View all]
Source: Sacramwnto Bee
Sacramento police fatally shot Stephon Clark on Sunday night within seconds of encountering him next to his grandparents home in south Sacramento, video released Wednesday by the department shows.
About six minutes after the shooting, after backup arrives, an officer can be heard telling another officer, hey mute.
Sound then cuts out as officers apparently turn off their microphones. But video continues and the officers can be seen speaking to each other and to at least one civilian on scene for about two more minutes before the video ends.
We asked, Can they do that, said Les Simmons, a pastor and social activist in Sacramento who viewed the footage with two of Clarks family members Wednesday afternoon prior to its public release. They all just muted their mics. It was a moment of, what are they doing? What are they saying?
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He was at the wrong place at the wrong time in his own back yard?” his grandmother, Sequita Thompson, told the Sacramento Bee. “C’mon now, they didn’t have to do that.”
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