Updated: Show me your hands. Police video shows death of Stephon Clark in a hail of gunfire

[laserhaas]

Source: Sacramwnto Bee

Sacramento police fatally shot Stephon Clark on Sunday night within seconds of encountering him next to his grandparents home in south Sacramento, video released Wednesday by the department shows.

About six minutes after the shooting, after backup arrives, an officer can be heard telling another officer, hey mute.

Sound then cuts out as officers apparently turn off their microphones. But video continues and the officers can be seen speaking to each other and to at least one civilian on scene for about two more minutes before the video ends.

We asked, Can they do that, said Les Simmons, a pastor and social activist in Sacramento who viewed the footage with two of Clarks family members Wednesday afternoon prior to its public release. They all just muted their mics. It was a moment of, what are they doing? What are they saying?

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He was at the wrong place at the wrong time in his own back yard?” his grandmother, Sequita Thompson, told the Sacramento Bee. “C’mon now, they didn’t have to do that.”

[laserhaas]

1. Should anyone find a postable video

Please advise!

[Locrian]

2. mutherf****rs!!!

Police training expert Ed Obayashi said after viewing some of the video that the shooting was "reasonable" and that firing so many shots was standard procedure.

“It looks bad, but (the officers) are still perceiving a threat,” said Obayashi. “He's not obeying. He's running from them. He suddenly turns. The problem is he‘s got an object in his hand which unfortunately even during daylight could easily be considered a gun.”

THIS! Right here is the problem - how can any reasonable person say this unless you have a culture and system that purposely creates the situation?!!

[Nitram]

4. If he hadn't had a cell phone they would have planted one on him.

[Locrian]

8. yeah - doesn't even have to be a gun

ANYTHING is enough: cell phone, flashlight, etc.

[MrScorpio]

3. For cops, it's still open season on black people in America.

[Nitram]

5. You can clearly see the cell phone at 13:22

[laserhaas]

10. WOW

Insane!

[braddy]

6. Here is video of the chase and shooting.

[marble falls]

7. Here's a shooter's footage.....

[demigoddess]

9. I saw footage from the helicopter and it really showed that they were around a corner

when they were shooting at him. That is 'in danger'? They were not in danger and they should not have feared to their lives and should not have shot at him, especially not 20 times. God, how cowardly can you get?????? That young man did nothing to get shot at.

[Hortensis]

11. Beyond despicable. Police executed someone they

believed MIGHT have broken some car windows after he ran away from them into a back yard. Good for all those people are out demonstrating. Just follow it up by voting.

Note, the police chief is an appointee, the city's first AA chief, less than a year ago in 2017. He's not been around long enough to have created this culture, or to fix it.

[laserhaas]

12. Common sense, a B & E suspect is less likely to be armed

As a comment above pointed out, it was clear he held a cell phone; and the video shows no threatening movement.

1 officer pulled a trigger and both - went off - after the initial gun shot.

Muting their cams should be an instant suspension!

[Hortensis]

13. Yes. Weren't they?

[Blue_Tires]

14. I've seen this script too many times...