In Sacramento, California, protests are continuing over the police killing of Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old, unarmed African American who was shot dead in his grandmother’s backyard last year. Demonstrations erupted over the weekend after county prosecutors said they would not press criminal charges against the officers, who unleashed 20 bullets at Clark within just seven seconds and waited for over five minutes before approaching him to administer medical attention. On Tuesday, angry residents protested the killing at Sacramento’s City Council meeting, briefly disrupting proceedings. And on Thursday, hundreds of students from Sacramento City College and C.K. McClatchy High School walked out of classes to protest the decision not to prosecute the officers who killed Stephon Clark.
Sacramento, CA: Protests Continue over Killing of Stephon Clark
HeadlineMar 08, 2019