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Crowds Protesting Stephon Clark Shooting Take Over Downtown Sacramento
http://fox40.com/ ^ | 3/22/18 | ROWENA SHADDOX

Posted on 03/22/2018 8:27:10 PM PDT by BBell

SACRAMENTO -- 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.

Protesters clogged major downtown Sacramento streets near City Hall as the Thursday commute was about to begin. Earlier in the day, the city urged drivers to find alternate routes.

A large crowd of demonstrators walked onto Interstate 5 at J Street and blocked both sides of the roadway, forcing traffic to stop. Drivers were seen getting out of their stopped cars along the interstate.

In one instance a CHP officer grabbed a lone man and dragged him from the southbound I-5 onto the shoulder of the roadway. Demonstrators told FOX40 the man was not associated with their protest and was later arrested.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: blm; braking; california; clark; donut; donutwatch; doughnut; doughnutwatch; localnews; lookwhohatescops; omg; police; sacramento; shooting; stephon; stephonclark
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To: dirtboy

A police shooting in a Democrat-run city.

That’s waaacist!


21 posted on 03/22/2018 8:44:27 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Paul R.

Democrat mayor makes it about color.

Identity politics to the max.


22 posted on 03/22/2018 8:46:53 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: vette6387; ROCKLOBSTER

It was a “tool bar” first. They later decided that it was a phone.


23 posted on 03/22/2018 8:47:30 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: BBell

The foot cops muted their body cams during the chase. One actually said something along the lines of “Go mute.”, or something simular. Cameras then when mute.


24 posted on 03/22/2018 8:47:52 PM PDT by moovova
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To: BBell
Slightly off the topic...

I used to live near Sacramento (now quite happily in a nicely "red" state).

I miss the California of 30 years ago. I do not miss the Cali of the new millennium. At all.

Too much crime, trash, ickiness, drug gangs, multicultural anti-traditional-Americanism.

People are now rude and creepy, compared to what we knew just a few decades ago. I hope Cali can recover so Californians can stay there and keep from ruining other states.

25 posted on 03/22/2018 8:48:01 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: BBell

Lawd! Deez pohleece oura killin’ oura chil’ren! Lawd stop deez pohleece and pray for oura kidz!


26 posted on 03/22/2018 8:48:08 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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To: familyop

Liberal CA is like the 60s South.

Not to worry, they’ll find a way to make it Trump’s fault.


27 posted on 03/22/2018 8:51:01 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: moovova

Why?


28 posted on 03/22/2018 8:53:00 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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To: goldstategop
"Not to worry, they’ll find a way to make it Trump’s fault."

Yes--both the demonstrators and the government employees. Something both sides appear to agree on in Cali!


29 posted on 03/22/2018 8:57:25 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

Couldn’t they have shot him with ten tazers, a tranquilizer gun, an African game net, a BB gun, some rock salt, driven him into a trip rope/net etc?

Something less than gunning him down?

Using lethal force for allegedly “breaking into cars” seems a little harsh.

Unless he fires a shot.


30 posted on 03/22/2018 9:08:23 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The Obama is about to hit the fan.)
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To: BBell

He was apparently seen by a helicopter breaking into cars and a house nearby.

He had his cell phone in his hand, Police saw something, they thought it was a gun and told him to drop the gun and raise his hands. If he followed orders, dropped the phone and raised his hands, he would not have gotten shot.


31 posted on 03/22/2018 9:09:39 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: BBell

They’ve got nothing else to do, what the heck.


32 posted on 03/22/2018 9:16:18 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: vette6387

bingo, sick to death of bullies with badges


33 posted on 03/22/2018 9:19:35 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: CondorFlight

Everything is race to some. This guy was a typical scumbag. No, it does not deserve death by cop but these protestors need to look at the root of why America is rotting and civil society lessening. As a society de-evolves and breaks down, the response from those sworn to protect it becomes much more harsh. Incidentally, I think police training and hiring is grossly inadequate as a whole in America.


34 posted on 03/22/2018 9:19:41 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: BBell

The police had been chasing him trying to catch him. He had something in his hands(a cell phone). When ask to show his hands he didn’t

He wouldn’t have been shot had he not been trying to run from police and then not following directions


35 posted on 03/22/2018 9:26:43 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Innovative

"...seen by a helicopter..."


Seems unreasonable to believe a helicopter flying 500-1000 feet overhead, at night, in a busy city...just happened to see someone stealing stuff out of parked cars.

36 posted on 03/22/2018 9:26:56 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: vette6387

He ran from the police when they first tried to stop him. They caught up with him in the back yard. This guy was no innocent


37 posted on 03/22/2018 9:28:20 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: dirtboy

Precisely


38 posted on 03/22/2018 9:29:00 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: CondorFlight

Well, Darrell, get rid of the Oakland imports then,. and their liberal friends that ruined Sacramento


39 posted on 03/22/2018 9:29:27 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

The government in California is more crazy about police matters than in most other states.


40 posted on 03/22/2018 9:32:30 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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