In Californian city of Sacramento, an unarmed black man has been shot by police. According to ir own data, officials assumed that 22-year-old Stephon Clark had been armed. In fact, only a smartphone was found next to his body. In total, police gave away 20 shots.
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The officials had followed an emergency call because of several car burglaries. Assuming that Clark was culprit, y followed him to garden of his house. The incident occurred on Sunday evening, and police released video footage of infrared camera of a helicopter and of officers ‘ body cameras. These show two policemen storming property and asking suspect to show his hands. Shortly reafter you call “Weapon! Weapon! Weapon! “and begin to shoot.
The grandmor of person killed, who he lived in, condemned behaviour of police. “He should have been in his own yard at wrong time at wrong place?” She said to newspaper Sacramento Bee. “You wouldn’t have to do that.”
There has long been a debate in United States about police violence against blacks. Time and again re are cases where unarmed African Americans are shot by policemen. In principle, overwhelming majority of suspects shot by police officers in United States are also black. Under slogan Black Lives Matter, a national protest movement has been forming for several years. In case of murdered Clark spoke movement of murder and demanded quick answers.
