BISHOP SOTO CALLS ON SACRAMENTO TO TAKE TO THE STREETS
2:43 p.m.: Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto attributed Clark and other young black men’s deaths to a “deeply frayed social fabric, ” and urged protestors to fight for educational and financial equality as well as police reform in a prepared statement.
“Taking to the streets becomes the only recourse when public institutions fail to matter to those who are hurting. This free expression should be protected and respected by all those involved,” Soto said in the statement. “Voices on the street must also become votes in a ballot box, conversations at council and school board meetings, unison song in churches. Hands held while marching must become handshakes among neighbors, hands helping a stranger in need.”
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LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSEMBLING
2 p.m.: Law enforcement presence on the streets is so far light. But CHP officers are guarding the I Street on-ramp to Interstate 5, where protestors last year stormed the freeway and temporary blocked traffic during protests a few days after Clark’s death. A half a dozen motorcycle officers are stationed at City Hall where the mayor and city council members are holding a press conference.
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That social fabric is so deeply frayed it blocks the ability of some member of the public to process the repeated, unambiguous commands of law enforcement personnel.
Thanks, yer bishopness. You sure helped defuse that tense situation. A regular kochleffel* you are.
* means literally ‘cooking spoon,’ or someone who adds nothing of substance to any situation, but sure can stir things up.
The perp was busting out the windows in vehicles with a bat in the neighborhood.