6, March 2019 Stephon Clark
On March 18th,
African-American, Stephon Clark was brutally gunned down by Sacramento police
in a hail of 20 bullets. The police justification followed a familiar theme.
They claimed Stephan was holding a gun which turned out to be a cellphone. They
failed to issue any warning or use nonlethal weapons. In a clear effort to
suppress incriminating evidence, the police officers shut off the audio of the
video cam after killing Stephon Clark. And now we are told that the county’s district
attorney will not file criminal charges against the two police officers who
shot and killed him. Contrast how police
responded to white domestic terrorists such as Nikolas Cruz, the mass shooter
in Florida or Dylann Storm Roof, who gunned down the parishioners at the Mother
Emanuel Church. In both cases they escaped being killed by police.
Let us hope a federal investigation will
remedy this grave injustice.
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