Crowds Protesting Stephon Clark Shooting Take Over Downtown Sacramento

http://fox40.com/ ^ | 3/22/18 | ROWENA SHADDOX

[BBell]

SACRAMENTO -- Four days after 22-year-old Stephon Clark was shot and killed by police officers in his grandparents' backyard, protesters gathered inside and outside Sacramento City Hall.

Officers believed Clark had been breaking into cars in the neighborhood and shot him because they say they thought he had a gun. He was only holding a cellphone.

"The death of one more man of color is one too many," Mayor Darrell Steinberg said earlier Thursday before the protest began.

Protesters clogged major downtown Sacramento streets near City Hall as the Thursday commute was about to begin. Earlier in the day, the city urged drivers to find alternate routes.

A large crowd of demonstrators walked onto Interstate 5 at J Street and blocked both sides of the roadway, forcing traffic to stop. Drivers were seen getting out of their stopped cars along the interstate.

In one instance a CHP officer grabbed a lone man and dragged him from the southbound I-5 onto the shoulder of the roadway. Demonstrators told FOX40 the man was not associated with their protest and was later arrested.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I will admit that most cities covered do not include Dem-ruled big cities like NYC, LA, CHI, etc.,

Most cities are RAT.

[snarkytart]

California is a shit state, the liberals have turned into a shit state. Hope the natives burn it all down.

[PAR35]

Are the looters taking orders? Do they have free shipping?

[Nifster]

You have the same mind set as the crazies who made TOE for our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq

Yes we are at war. The troops are already on the ground battling.

[redgolum]

I agree.

Don’t support the riot, but the shooting was bad.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Pobably not unless B.Hussein sends in his community agitators.

[bk1000]

So tired of this “of color” crap.

[Sirius Lee]

So tired of this “of color” crap.

Give it another couple of years and they'll be demanding to be called "colored people".

[T-Bone Texan]

"...What was a 22 year old man doing running through people’s yards?..."

Stealing. He was stealing from the productive members of society.

And society is better off with him gone, sorry to say.

[Magnum44]

I saw the video on the news. The helicopter was tracking him on FLIR. The perp could clearly be seen. The officers in pursuit were in dark allies or back yards and having to use flashlights to see. Tough and scary situation to be in tactically, and dangerous had the perp actually been armed. It’s very easy to have your adrenaline up when you’ve already been in pursuit. This was not a repeat of the Vegas Costco shooting. I can see how the officers might have been in fear of life had the misidentified cell phone been a gun. That said, it didn’t look good that the cops muted the cameras.

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"The death of one more man of color is one too many," Mayor Darrell Steinberg said earlier Thursday before the protest began.

:)

[moovova]

I don’t know why the cops muted their camera audio. I was watching the police-released video on Fox last night, and it included the part about one cop telling the other one to turn off the audio. The report included video segments from the aerial (in thermal imagining) and the cop’s body cams. Turning off the body cam audio was very briefly discussed by the cops...and deliberate. Reason unknown.

An interesting aside... In the aerial thermal imaging, you could see the perp on the ground, presumably already shot and down, with the cops continuing to fire. You could actually see the spark of the bullets ricocheting off the concrete patio near his body.

[redgolum]

You cannot expect a cop to wait until fired upon before responding

We expect that of soldiers in a freaking war zone. We expect that of every CCW holder in the US. The only people who have a pretty open license to shoot is cops. How about we give cops the same rules of engagement we give the Infantry in Afghanistan?

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https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=u0XGz_1521674747
2 body cams and the helicopter footage

[Nifster]

And soldiers die daily because of it. Soldiers hate it. Those ROEs were instituted by the political generals of Boll Clinton

Read Marcus Latrell’s book

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Democrat mayor makes it about color.

Yup! Pouring gasoline on the fire!

[dirtboy]

This was nothing like Justine Diamond. The cops had been pursuing this dude for some time.

[fwdude]

That fact will be long swept under the rug as unobtainable.

[fwdude]

There are quite a few cop haters on FR. It’s chilling to think that they consider themselves conservative.

[redgolum]

Correct.

I am not a fan of the ROE. You missed my point.

I have friends who were soldiers in Iraq, and then became LEO’s (till they lost the stomach for it).

Cops have pretty much a free license to fire. One of my friends was told by his partner to keep the bodycam covered, so they can be “more effective”. That is at best a massive failure of integrity, and one that these Sacramento cops seem to share.

My friend as an Army solider, had a lot of training on the rules of engagement, law of war, and how to try to defuse situations. As a cop, he said the standards were not only lower, but at times 180 degrees at odds.

It isn’t only black men getting shot. Any interaction with a cop now, no matter how minor, risks instance death with no consequences to the shooter. I mean we have people getting “SWATED”, and getting shot unarmed when they show up to the wrong house!

Something needs to change.