Dozens of people, including a Sacramento Bee reporter, were detained Monday night when a protest over the Sacramento County district attorney’s decision not to charge two officers in the shooting death of Stephon Clark turned tense.
Dozens of people, including a Sacramento Bee reporter, were detained Monday night when a protest over the Sacramento County district attorney’stwo officers in the shooting death of Stephon Clark, a black man holding a cellphone, turned tense and closed down one of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods.
“Our plan was to bring the issue to a neighborhood whose residents have proximity to decision-making power,” protester J. Ama Mantey said in a statement. “This is a neighborhood that would likely never experience such a tragic and violent loss of one of its residents, so we are bringing the discomfort and pain of our trauma to their doorstep.”
The officers were directed to Clark by a Sheriff’s Department helicopter and chased him into a dark backyard, where they fired 20 shots after seeing a burst of light in his hand that one officer thought was a muzzle flash, according to the subsequent investigation. Clark was struck at least seven times and died at the scene.and closing a freeway.
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