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Protesters' calls for justice for Stephon Clark again forces lockdown of Kings arena
Yahoo ^ | March 28, 2018 | Dan Devine

Posted on 03/28/2018 5:57:11 AM PDT by C19fan

On Thursday, for the second time in a week, protesters blocked the entrances to Golden 1 Center and prevented thousands of fans from entering a Sacramento Kings game in an effort to continue calling for action by local officials following the police killing of Stephon Clark.

Sacramento police responding to a call about someone breaking car windows shot and killed Clark, a 22-year-old black man, on Sunday, March 18, in his grandmother’s backyard. Video of the shooting released last Thursday showed that officers, reportedly believing Clark had a gun, fired 20 shots at him. An after-the-fact search revealed that they’d mistaken Clark’s iPhone for a firearm.

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TOPICS: Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; blm; california; clark; kingsarena; liberalagenda; sacramento; stephonclark
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1 posted on 03/28/2018 5:57:12 AM PDT by C19fan
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Is this what a lynch mob looks like?


2 posted on 03/28/2018 6:04:16 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: C19fan

Was thr guy breaking car windows or not?


3 posted on 03/28/2018 6:07:48 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Members of the Kings and Boston Celtics came out for Sunday’s game dressed in warmup shirts bearing Clark’s name on the back and the phrase “Accountability. We Are One” on the front. They also recorded a brief public service announcement calling for accountability and unity that played on the Jumbotron before the start of the game.
Damn and I was just about to spend $100+ per seat to watch some adult mostly black men who are paid millions of dollars play a kid's game.
4 posted on 03/28/2018 6:10:16 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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Bring out the riot control.


5 posted on 03/28/2018 6:10:19 AM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: Paladin2

If someone came into my neighborhood and broke car windows including mine, I wouldn’t be upset if the cops shot him. If the shots hit the right spots, he would never break another car window and the taxpayers would not have to foot the bills for the public defenders and room and board costs.


6 posted on 03/28/2018 6:15:16 AM PDT by VietVet876
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Was thr guy breaking car windows or not?

Was he unarmed or not?

7 posted on 03/28/2018 6:18:47 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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If the shots hit the right spots, he would never break another car window and the taxpayers would not have to foot the bills for the public defenders and room and board costs.

But you will foot the bill for the wrongful death lawsuit payout.

8 posted on 03/28/2018 6:19:36 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Videos can be more dangerous to thr police than guns...


9 posted on 03/28/2018 6:22:36 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DoodleDawg
Was the guy breaking car windows or not?

Not established, but if you look at the helicopter video, he is jumping over back fences to evade police.

Was he unarmed or not?

He was unarmed but he was holding his girlfriend's pink cellphone which he allegedly pointed at the cops rather than throwing his hands up in the air as he was instructed to do.

I don't think this the police handled this well but Mr. Clark bears some responsibility for the way it ended. That's something the BLM media will not tell you.

10 posted on 03/28/2018 6:28:32 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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Note to self: if cop with gun says “drop it.”, drop it. It doesn’t matter how many payments are left on the iPhone.


11 posted on 03/28/2018 6:41:16 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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I’m not gonna miss the NBA


12 posted on 03/28/2018 6:48:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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I don't think this the police handled this well but Mr. Clark bears some responsibility for the way it ended. That's something the BLM media will not tell you.

So who bears more responsibility?

13 posted on 03/28/2018 7:00:41 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Sacramento police responding to a call about someone breaking car windows shot and killed Clark, a 22-year-old black man,
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I am GLAD ‘we’ got that settled and in the 2nd sentence.

How many of the responding Officers were Black? Did a Black Officers bullet put the dude in room temperature status?

Was the 22 yo Black man committing a Black on Black(owned vehicle) crime?

Did Grandma say she didn’t care he was breaking her windows OR did Grandma CALL THE POLICE to stop the person from breaking her windows?

Would Grandma have shown such ‘rage’ had the breaker not been her Grandson?

‘They’ should give us ALL the facts.....not just agenda driven ones.


14 posted on 03/28/2018 7:17:53 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""Liberals suffer from PTDS -PRESIDENT TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME")
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He does.

If you’re out breaking into cars in the middle of the night, and you get the cops called on you, and you start running through yards, and the cops think you’re phone is a gun, and you got shot... oh well.

So I recommend that you don’t do that.


15 posted on 03/28/2018 7:35:38 AM PDT by chris37 (I love my German Shepherd girls!)
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If you’re out breaking into cars in the middle of the night, and you get the cops called on you, and you start running through yards, and the cops think you’re phone is a gun, and you got shot... oh well.

So if you call the police on a prowler in the middle of the night then you approach them from behind and either make a loud noise or a loud noise is created causing the police to shoot and kill you was that your fault too?

16 posted on 03/28/2018 7:38:18 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Why would I approach a prowler from behind?

Do I look stupid to you?

Theme for the dense: Stupid gets you killed sometimes.


17 posted on 03/28/2018 7:55:12 AM PDT by chris37 (I love my German Shepherd girls!)
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Is the dead guy responsible in this case too?

Texas Officer Fatally Shoots Unarmed Man Walking With Pants Down

18 posted on 03/28/2018 7:55:53 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Not talking about that case, don’t change the subject.


19 posted on 03/28/2018 8:03:05 AM PDT by chris37 (I love my German Shepherd girls!)
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Theme for the dense: Stupid gets you killed sometimes.

I'm sure the family of Justine Diamond up in Minneapolis will be sorry to hear that.

20 posted on 03/28/2018 8:56:25 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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