A vigil for Stephon Clark, the young black father shot to death by police last month, turned chaotic Saturday night when a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department vehicle struck a protester and apparently fled the scene. Wanda Cleveland had been marching down Florin Road in Sacramento […]
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A California nurse threatened to sue the person who put a spotlight on her social media post about Stephon Clark, which led to her getting fired. “Yeah, but he was running from the police jumping over fences and breaking in peoples houses… why run??!!! He […]
Stevante Clark, the older brother of the unarmed Sacramento, Calif., man who was gunned down by police in his own backyard, went on “CNN Tonight” Wednesday to discuss the aftermath of Stephon Clark’s death. But the interview didn’t go as many may have predicted. Source: […]
Mourners embrace as they leave a wake for Stephon Clark at the Boss Church> on March 28, 2018 in Sacramento, California. Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) On March 18, two police officers in Sacramento, Calif., shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark in the backyard of […]
On Sunday, March 18, around 9:18 p.m., Sacramento police responded to a call “that a thin, 6-foot-1 Black man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and dark pants was hiding in a residential backyard after breaking car windows,” according to The Sacramento Bee. Just eight minutes later, officers […]