{"id":736,"date":"2018-03-23T21:12:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T01:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2018-03-23T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T01:12:26","slug":"protests-grip-sacramento-after-police-fatally-shoot-unarmed-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Protests Grip Sacramento After Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed Black Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CHRISTINE HAUSER and MAGGIE ASTORMARCH 22, 2018<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video\/players\/offsite\/index.html?videoId=100000005813009\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharetools-video-container\">\n<div id=\"sharetools-video-tools-100000005813009\" class=\"sharetools sharetools-video-tools\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"sharetools-video-inline-100000005813009\" class=\"sharetools sharetools-video-inline\" data-shares=\"facebook|,twitter|\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/100000005813009\/stephon-clark-killed-police-sacramento.html\" data-title=\"How Stephon Clark Was Killed by Police in His Backyard\" data-description=\"Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed man, was shot by the police in his backyard in Sacramento on March 18. Police body camera and helicopter footage shows details of what happened.\" data-content-type=\"video\" data-via=\"nytvideo\" data-share-tools-initialized=\"1\">Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed man, was shot by the police in his backyard in Sacramento on March 18. Police body camera and helicopter footage shows details of what happened. By BARBARA MARCOLINI, CHRIS CIRILLO and CHRISTOPH KOETTL on Publish Date March 22, 2018. Photo by Sacramento Police Department<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Hundreds of protesters filled the streets of Sacramento on Thursday, blocking traffic on a major highway and shutting down an arena after the police fatally shot a young black man in his backyard over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"173\" data-total-count=\"386\">A day earlier, the Sacramento Police Department released footage from body cameras and a helicopter that had recorded the chase and fatal shooting of the man, Stephon Clark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"300\" data-total-count=\"686\">Mr. Clark, 22, was living with relatives in a south Sacramento house when the police responded to a 911 call about a man breaking car windows and a glass door in the neighborhood. Assisted by a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QyLdm1pzujg\">sheriff\u2019s helicopter<\/a>, they encountered Mr. Clark in the dark yard and fatally shot him,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/21\/us\/stephon-clark-police-shooting.html\">the police said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"68\" data-total-count=\"754\">He did not have a weapon. A cellphone was later found near his body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"170\" data-total-count=\"924\">The department, when it released the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCxm_XB7V2hgNJwVtu6ZShRg\">three videos and two audio recordings<\/a>late on Wednesday, said the officers \u201cbelieved the suspect was pointing a firearm at them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"205\" data-total-count=\"1129\">But it added that it \u201crecognizes the significance of this incident and the impact it has on our community. We are committed to providing timely information and communicating openly with our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-body-supplemental\">\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-2\">\n<p id=\"story-continues-3\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"111\" data-total-count=\"1240\">The killing quickly came under scrutiny as another example of officers opening fire on an unarmed black person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"311\" data-total-count=\"1551\">On Thursday, hundreds of protesters gathered at City Hall and spilled into the streets of downtown Sacramento, shutting down Interstate 5 in both directions during the evening rush. Then they blockaded the Golden 1 Center, where the N.B.A.\u2019s Sacramento Kings were scheduled to play the Atlanta Hawks at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"227\" data-total-count=\"1778\">The police blocked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SacPolice\/status\/977012031143358464\">the arena<\/a>, preventing most fans from entering. The game was played after a delay, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mr_jasonjones\/status\/977003032624775168\">video<\/a>\u00a0and photos posted on Twitter, including by Jason Jones, a Sacramento Bee reporter, showed many of the stands empty.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media twitter embedded layout-horizontal-inset\">\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mr_jasonjones\/status\/977008994018476032\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-dt-full=\"%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-dt-explicit-timestamp=\"10:27 PM - Mar 22, 2018\" data-dt-months=\"Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec\" data-dt-am=\"AM\" data-dt-pm=\"PM\" data-dt-now=\"now\" data-dt-s=\"s\" data-dt-m=\"m\" data-dt-h=\"h\" data-dt-second=\"second\" data-dt-seconds=\"seconds\" data-dt-minute=\"minute\" data-dt-minutes=\"minutes\" data-dt-hour=\"hour\" data-dt-hours=\"hours\" data-dt-abbr=\"%{number}%{symbol}\" data-dt-short=\"%{day} %{month}\" data-dt-long=\"%{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"977008994018476032\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard MediaCard--mediaForward customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\">\n<p><a class=\"MediaCard-borderOverlay\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" role=\"presentation\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mr_jasonjones\/status\/977008994018476032\/photo\/1\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">View image on Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 75.0000%\"><a class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset NaturalImage\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mr_jasonjones\/status\/977008994018476032\/photo\/1\" data-scribe=\"element:photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NaturalImage-image\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DY8IfwnUMAAG4eX?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DY8IfwnUMAAG4eX\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"256\" data-total-count=\"2034\">\u201cDue to law enforcement being unable to ensure ticketed fans could safely enter the arena, the arena remains closed and we ask fans outside to travel home,\u201d the Kings said in a statement. \u201cWe will issue further information soon regarding a refund.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"media-100000005813065\" class=\"media photo embedded layout-large-horizontal media-100000005813065\" role=\"group\" data-media-action=\"modal\" aria-label=\"media\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Photo<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-viewer-candidate\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/03\/23\/us\/23xp-Sacramento-2\/merlin_135821493_364359b2-8309-481d-b8bb-871a13091a26-master675.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/03\/23\/us\/23xp-Sacramento-2\/merlin_135821493_364359b2-8309-481d-b8bb-871a13091a26-superJumbo.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"People gathered on Wednesday outside the home where Mr. Clark, who was unarmed, was fatally shot by Sacramento officers. Video footage released on Wednesday shows the officers yelling that he had a gun, but no gun was found.\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Rich Pedroncelli\/Associated Press\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-action-overlay\"><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"caption-text\">People gathered on Wednesday outside the home where Mr. Clark, who was unarmed, was fatally shot by Sacramento officers. Video footage released on Wednesday shows the officers yelling that he had a gun, but no gun was found.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"credit\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Credit<\/span>Rich Pedroncelli\/Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"249\" data-total-count=\"2283\">The police department\u2019s public information office did not respond to a phone call and email seeking more information about the protests, including precisely how large they were, whether there were any injuries and whether anyone had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"202\" data-total-count=\"2485\">Mr. Clark\u2019s relatives spoke to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article205818424.html\">The Sacramento Bee<\/a>\u00a0after the shooting, saying that family members often entered the home through the garage, knocking on the back window because the doorbell was broken.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-4\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"185\" data-total-count=\"2670\">\u201cThe only thing that I heard was pow, pow, pow, pow, and I got to the ground,\u201d said Sequita Thompson, Mr. Clark\u2019s grandmother, adding, \u201cI opened that curtain and he was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"213\" data-total-count=\"2883\">The department said this week that the officers involved have been put on paid leave as district and city attorneys investigate. Local community leaders and activists have called for greater police accountability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"259\" data-total-count=\"3142\">\u201cWe need answers. The family needs answers,\u201d a Black Lives Matter Sacramento organizer, Tanya Faison, said at a City Council meeting on Tuesday,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/police-2-officers-fired-20-times-in-deadly-south-sacramento-shooting\/19506441\">KCRA news reported<\/a>. \u201cWe need those officers to be fired because this was obviously a very huge injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsletter-promo\" class=\"newsletter-signup auto-newsletter variant-1-hidden\" data-newsletter-productcode=\"\" data-newsletter-producttitle=\"\" aria-labeledby=\"newsletter-promo-heading\">\n<form class=\"newsletter-form\" autocomplete=\"off\" method=\"post\" name=\"regilite\">\n<div class=\"control input-control\"><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"374\" data-total-count=\"3516\">The final moments of Mr. Clark\u2019s life were captured on body cameras worn by two officers, who arrived on a dimly lit block of 29th Street around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday. Just after St. Patrick\u2019s Day revelry, they had been working on a night that had \u201cbeen nuts,\u201d the dispatcher told the man who called in about a tall, thin man wearing a hoodie who was breaking windows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"191\" data-total-count=\"3707\">The officers approached a house and spoke to the occupant through window bars, asking to search the property because of reports that a man had been seen fleeing after breaking a sliding door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"187\" data-total-count=\"3894\">A sheriff\u2019s helicopter hovered, its spotlight sweeping over backyards, as it relayed information about the movement of the suspect, darting through yards and pausing to peer into a car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"274\" data-total-count=\"4168\">About seven uneventful minutes into the footage, the officers broke into a jog and headed to another house. A tight circle of light from a source held or worn by the officers bounced off the grass as the officers ran along the side of the yard, arms extended and guns drawn.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"media-100000005814595\" class=\"media photo embedded layout-large-horizontal media-100000005814595 ratio-tall\" role=\"group\" data-media-action=\"modal\" aria-label=\"media\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Photo<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-viewer-candidate\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/03\/23\/us\/23xp-sacramento-protest\/merlin_135870384_dbcb5a51-41cf-4766-9722-1a74ffcaa83f-master675.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/03\/23\/us\/23xp-sacramento-protest\/merlin_135870384_dbcb5a51-41cf-4766-9722-1a74ffcaa83f-superJumbo.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"Protesters outside City Hall in Sacramento on Thursday. They would later block Interstate 5 in both directions during the evening commute.\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-action-overlay\"><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Protesters outside City Hall in Sacramento on Thursday. They would later block Interstate 5 in both directions during the evening commute.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"credit\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Credit<\/span>Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"140\" data-total-count=\"4308\">Peering around the corner of the house, they saw Mr. Clark in the backyard. An overlapping rush of words coincided with their fatal actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"126\" data-total-count=\"4434\">\u201cHey show me your hands \u2014 stop, stop,\u201d one officer shouted. \u201cShow me your hands, gun, gun, gun.\u201d The shooting began.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-5\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"35\" data-total-count=\"4469\">\u201cShow me your hands,\u201d said one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"45\" data-total-count=\"4514\">\u201cLet\u2019s see your hands,\u201d said the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"79\" data-total-count=\"4593\">Each officer had fired 10 bullets by the time it was over, the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"112\" data-total-count=\"4705\">From the perspective of the body cameras, the overgrown grass obscured most of Mr. Clark\u2019s body on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"77\" data-total-count=\"4782\">\u201cHe is down, no movement,\u201d an officer said, calling for additional units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"42\" data-total-count=\"4824\">\u201cLet\u2019s see your hands,\u201d one shouted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"160\" data-total-count=\"4984\">The officers asked each other if they were all right. One told his partner to reload, as a tactical precaution. \u201cI think I shot about five times,\u201d one said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"65\" data-total-count=\"5049\">\u201cHe is still down, he is not moving, we can\u2019t see the gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"96\" data-total-count=\"5145\">After a few minutes, speaking to the still body, an officer shouted, \u201cHey, can you hear us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"238\" data-total-count=\"5383\">A new voice could be heard, this time from a woman, apparently among the reinforcements, who called to Mr. Clark. \u201cWe need to know if you\u2019re O.K.,\u201d she said, adding that they could not help unless they knew he did not have a weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"58\" data-total-count=\"5441\">\u201cSir, can you move? Can you hear us?\u201d the woman asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"70\" data-total-count=\"5511\">He \u201capproached us hands out, and then fell down,\u201d said an officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"72\" data-total-count=\"5583\">The department later said that Mr. Clark was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"supplemental-2\" class=\"supplemental \" data-pre-height=\"4062\" data-max-items=\"4\" data-remaining=\"282\" data-minimum=\"400\" data-last-item-height=\"945\" data-flex-ad-adjacency=\"false\" data-post-height=\"4270\">\n<div class=\"supplemental-items\" data-supplemental-order=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"supplemental-items\" data-supplemental-order=\"3\">\n<div id=\"medium-rectangle-ad-4\" class=\"ad ad-placeholder medium-rectangle-ad marginalia-item nocontent robots-nocontent\" data-google-query-id=\"CKqq8ZXig9oCFZRGNwodfMwOGw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/29390238\/NYT\/us_12__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"supplemental-items\" data-supplemental-order=\"4\">\n<div id=\"marketing-ad\" class=\"ad marketing-ad marginalia-anchor-ad marginalia-item nocontent robots-nocontent\" data-google-query-id=\"CJjah5big9oCFdEKNwod8uUBHw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/29390238\/NYT\/us_13__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"medium-rectangle-ad-5\" class=\"ad ad-placeholder medium-rectangle-ad marginalia-item nocontent robots-nocontent\" data-google-query-id=\"CJnah5big9oCFdEKNwod8uUBHw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/29390238\/NYT\/us_14__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CHRISTINE HAUSER and MAGGIE ASTORMARCH 22, 2018 Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed man, was shot by the police in his backyard in Sacramento on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policing","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopplaybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-03-23_21-11-45.jpg?fit=786%2C520&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8VBh7-bS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}