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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox40.com ...


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
This was nothing like Justine Diamond. The cops had been pursuing this dude for some time.

In both cases the police shot and killed an unarmed civilian.

101 posted on 03/23/2018 6:44:53 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: redgolum

If you run from cops to the point of needing a helicopter to track you, your chances of being shot are already pretty high.

As a law abiding citizen, you run, we gun.

I feel bad for this family. Not sorry, just bad. Their pain is the result of their very stupid behavior.


102 posted on 03/23/2018 6:45:09 AM PDT by PSUGOP
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To: BBell

Parasites gotta protest.


103 posted on 03/23/2018 7:04:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: DoodleDawg

So you think cops should, in the darkness and at the end of a long pursuit of a suspect, should wait to make sure the person advancing towards them with an arm extended doesn’t have a gun in that hand? I’m sure you would exercise such restraint against an intruder in your own home...not. You nitwits demand a perfect world, cops don’t live in that world.


104 posted on 03/23/2018 7:07:10 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
So you think cops should, in the darkness and at the end of a long pursuit of a suspect, should wait to make sure the person advancing towards them with an arm extended doesn’t have a gun in that hand?

Yes.

I’m sure you would exercise such restraint against an intruder in your own home...not.

Let me ask you this. If you saw someone in your backyard and immediately opened fire then what do you think the authorities would do to you when it was discovered that person was unarmed and not a threat?

You nitwits demand a perfect world, cops don’t live in that world.

So in other words, police have carte blanche to shoot whoever they want so long as they say afterwards that they felt threatened? So please tell me again, using your standards, why Justine Diamond didn't deserve to die? Night time. Police are looking for an intruder. She approached the officers from behind. There was a loud noise. In your shoot-on-sight world then that was a perfectly reasonable response on the part of the police.

105 posted on 03/23/2018 7:24:06 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

I’m sorry, you are an idiot in comparing the two shootings. So no further debate is warranted. You may have the last word.


106 posted on 03/23/2018 7:28:46 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: vette6387
This is soooo unnecessary. Note to self, never “brandish” your cell phone when you are anywhere near a cop. Seemingly, they use any excuse to execute a citizen, and then say “oops, sorry missed that phone, thought it was a gun, my bad that I killed him!”

If you saw the video and heard the audio, the guy was told multiple times to show his hands. If he subsequently reached into his pocket for his cell phone, I can understand why the cops did what they did.

107 posted on 03/23/2018 7:28:51 AM PDT by Go Gordon
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To: DoodleDawg

In your progressive cop hating mode you are blind to the fact that black youth repeatedly shoot and kill police officers.

Resisting arrest is against the law and failure to submit by a black youth is just stupid.


108 posted on 03/23/2018 7:28:56 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: moovova
The foot cops muted their body cams during the chase. One actually said something along the lines of “Go mute.”, or something similar. Cameras then when mute

That's odd, yesterday I saw the whole chase and shooting on video. Don't know what you saw or were told.

109 posted on 03/23/2018 7:31:50 AM PDT by Go Gordon
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To: DoodleDawg
Let me ask you this. If you saw someone in your backyard and immediately opened fire then what do you think the authorities would do to you when it was discovered that person was unarmed and not a threat?

That is not what happened, moron, and you know it. You just want to bash cops out of context of what led up to that incident. Which makes you cut from the same cloth as the BLM jackasses who still hold up Trayvon and Michael Brown as martyrs.

110 posted on 03/23/2018 7:31:52 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: bert
In your progressive cop hating mode you are blind to the fact that black youth repeatedly shoot and kill police officers.

So then shoot all black suspects on sight?

Resisting arrest is against the law and failure to submit by a black youth is just stupid.

There was no arrest to resist in this case, just a stop and shot. And even if there was I don't believe it's a capitol offense. But in this day and age I will grant you the second part.

111 posted on 03/23/2018 7:35:27 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: dirtboy
That is not what happened, moron, and you know it. You just want to bash cops out of context of what led up to that incident. Which makes you cut from the same cloth as the BLM jackasses who still hold up Trayvon and Michael Brown as martyrs.

| So much for giving me the last word.

112 posted on 03/23/2018 7:36:22 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: BBell

burn. it. down.

take.it.to.the.suburbs.


113 posted on 03/23/2018 7:37:08 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I'm tired of living in the kinder gentler soviet union.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Here in Louisiana that has happened and the homeowner was not prosecuted.


114 posted on 03/23/2018 7:43:08 AM PDT by robowombat
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To: DoodleDawg

I re-read your idiocy and realized it did require a rebuttal, jackass.


115 posted on 03/23/2018 7:45:29 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

3 weeks ago in Seattle....
Guy was breaking into cars and shot at the police when they tried to stop him....he ran away, broke into a home and robbed the homeowner at gunpoint (in front of his kids and wife) of car keys, drove away in the car and had head on collision with police car a short distance away then he was trying to find his gun in the car (flew away from him in crash) and the police smoked him after he wouldn’t stop trying to grab the gun.


116 posted on 03/23/2018 7:48:59 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (We need a consent decree for the FBI like Obama was slapping on all those police agencies.)
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To: dirtboy
I re-read your idiocy and realized it did require a rebuttal, jackass.

Such a nice man.

117 posted on 03/23/2018 7:50:02 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: reasonisfaith

Maybe next time Stephon will think twice before stealing a vehicle. Maybe not.....
BTW, you are so right. If Stephon HAD a gun and killed the cop, it’s a local story only. OR if Stephon was white.


118 posted on 03/23/2018 7:52:05 AM PDT by alstewartfan (Lines of coffee cups on parade. Soldiers for keeping the night away. Al Stewart in Delia's Gone)
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To: robowombat
Here in Louisiana that has happened and the homeowner was not prosecuted.

Under California law you would be prosecuted. Their Castle Doctrine requires you be in your home and have a clear and reasonable fear of peril or bodily harm.

119 posted on 03/23/2018 7:52:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Using lethal force for allegedly “breaking into cars” seems a little harsh. Unless he fires a shot.

Only Han Solo has to wait for the bad guy to shoot first. Modern police are not required to take that risk. I guess they aren't the Good Guys anymore.

120 posted on 03/23/2018 7:53:52 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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