Last year, two Sacramento police officers were responding to a vandalism call and ended up firing twenty shots at an unarmed Stephon Clark, eight of which found their target. During the trial, Clark was painted as a troubled man who was on drugs and looking up ways to commit suicide, and who had been previously accused of assaulting his fiancée. The prosecutor went through multiple video footage of the incident, saying that Clark vandalized three cars and broke a sliding glass door before being shot in his own grandmother's backyard. Clark's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit that alleged that he was racially profiled. It said that the police officers failed to identify themselves or issue a verbal warning before shooting Clark, and did not get him medical attention after the fact.
This article was written by Ray Sanchez and Steve Almasy and was updated on March 2nd, 2019. Prior to reading the article, I had no knowledge of it, which is probably is the reason it was written. Personally, I believe that Clark was in the wrong for the damage he caused and should have been arrested. However, arrested does not mean he should have been shot six times in the back just because the police officers thought his phone was a gun. It is understandable that police officers would want to deescalate the situation as efficiently as possible, but it is not understandable that they wouldn't even follow procedure and then receive no charges for firing 20 shots. This case is similar to the 2018 case where Dallas police officer Amber Guyger shot a black man in his own home because she thought it was her apartment. The difference is that in that case, Guyger was charged with manslaughter, while the two unnamed police officers who shot Clark went unpunished.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/02/us/sacramento-police-shooting-stephon-clark-investigation/index.html
I dont understand why this is still going on it makes no sense this country is just know for killing killing and more killing.
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