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FOX SACRAMENTOURL:
http://fox40.com/2018/03/22/crowds-gather-at-city-hall-to-protest-stephon-clark-shooting/
Four days after 22-year-old Stephon Clark was shot and killed by police officers in his grandparents' backyard, protesters gathered inside and outside Sacramento City Hall.
Officers believed Clark had been breaking into cars in the neighborhood and shot him because they say they thought he had a gun. He was only holding a cellphone.
"The death of one more man of color is one too many," Mayor Darrell Steinberg said earlier Thursday before the protest began.
The action against what protestors say was the unjust killing of Clark at the hands of city police took over downtown, blocking intersections during the peak of the evening commute.
"I want her to see we always stand up for what's right no matter what. Even if you're tired and uncomfortable, sometimes you just have to stand up for what's right," said protestor Kyle MacFerran with his daughter on his shoulders.
On Wednesday, Sacramento police released 35 minutes of surveillance video from body cameras worn by officer and helicopter footage of the moments leading up to and including the shooting and thereafter.
"The tragedy warrants not only our sorrow but a deep examination of what occurred and what policies and procedures must be examined and changed to minimize the chance that this does not happen again," Steinberg said.
Steinberg cautioned not to render judgment solely based on the videos, but to allow the investigation to take its course, studying every aspect of this deadly encounter.
Clark's brother, Stevante Clark, told FOX40 that he, their other brother and their grandparents have not and will not watch the video released by the police department.
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