Wow: Police Release Footage of Cops Shooting Stephon Clark 20 Times
I don't care how many times this happens, it is still just as hard to watch and fathom.
The Sacramento police have released the body cam footage of unarmed Stephon Clark getting murdered.
Police in Sacramento shot and killed a 22-year-old black man Sunday night after mistaking an iPhone he was holding for a gun. Body-camera footage of the shooting, which is sparking protests in the California capital, was released Wednesday and it shows that mere seconds passed between police encountering Stephon Clark and shooting him dead.
“Hey, show me your hands. Stop. Stop,” one of the officers is heard yelling on the video seconds after spotting Clark in a driveway. Two officers then chase him into a yard where one can heard saying, “Gun. Gun. Gun.”
Then both officers opened fire.
In a statement, Sacramento police say Clark “advanced towards the officers while holding an object which was extended in front of him.” The officers believed this to be a gun and “fearing for their safety,” fired on him. What the SPD statement does not say is that Clark was not holding a gun. He was holding a white iPhone. -(Adam K. Raymond, New York Magazine)