Of course there should not be.......! Dude was a turd....! His whole family are pretty much turds, yes, seen them, heard them........ Nuff said, sorry, you break into cars and then run to Grandma's house, do not comply with lawful orders, you get shot. Pretty simple. If "Stephon" was white this would have been out of the news in less than 12 hours, he'd be long forgotten now and half way to worm food and I would be totally ok with that. Good luck driving on the 5, the 80, the 50, and in downtown Sac this week folks. Gonna be racial poop show for sure.......! Be careful folks...! Just like in Portand Oregon, depending on your "color" you might get beat up, you might be told you can't go down the street because you are white. Hopefully our SAC PD will have none of that and crack heads and take names..... Not holding my breath considering what I have heard from the Chief down there............. Enjoy your week folks, gonna be interesting. And of course the NY Times is interested in Sacramento for a change, they can incite more racial violence and disregard the rule of law and common sense....
Chris
https://www.nytimes....sacramento.html
1. Stephon Clark.
A son, brother, father and a convicted criminal. Although Clark’s family has waxed eloquent about what a great guy Clark was, and that he was “turning his life around,” the facts about the African American unarmed man shot and killed by Sacramento Police on March 18, 2018 do not paint such a rosy picture. A criminal since his teen years, the 22 year old had a juvenile record of grand theft, robbery and receiving stolen property. As an adult, Clark pled guilty to felony armed robbery, assault, and child endangering in one case, and “pimping” a prostitute in another case for which he pled no contest. In a third adult case, Clark was arrested for domestic violence for punching a woman in the face, and in yet another case from this year, Clark was again arrested for domestic violence. Why do people make a hero out of someone who has assaulted women? Before being shot he was allegedly breaking car windows and when spotted by a police helicopter the cops witnessed him breaking the sliding glass doors to a house. Police on the ground were directed to Clark’s location, and chased him on foot to the back yard of his grandmother’s house where he failed to drop something in his hand (it turned out to be a cellphone) and was shot to death. While it is true that a person should not receive a death penalty for breaking car windows, breaking a glass door to a house, and running from police, the fact is that if Clark was not breaking the law in these ways and had stopped when the police first told him to, he would not have been shot. Being a career criminal and committing crimes other than murder or attempted murder is not a good reason to die, but Clark had a huge role in the outcome of this sad and undeniably tragic incident.
