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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Strange that cops almost always claim they thought it was a gun when it is a wallet or cell phone.
Unless you happen to be a "man of color" who is murdered by other "men of color" in a Democrat controlled big city.
Then, you are Sierra Oscar Lima.
All those helicopters have high resolution, image-stabilized cameras on them.
They can see you so clearly that the zits on your face would stand out.
Cops are shooting blacks and whites, it’s a point black and white should be in agreement on, but BLM and these protesters ignore white deaths, they only want to talk about the colords.
"...shoot-on-sight world..."
“Will they burn anything down? “
Not in my neighborhood.
“The shooting seemed unreasonable from my interpretation of the full-length video. “
I watched the video and tried to put myself inn the cops shoes.
Given the totality of the circumstances, and the deceased activities for the several minutes before, I most certainly would have fired.
I suspect you would as well.
“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.”
Oh, I’m sure they did it all by the book, but was killing him really necessary? Too many cops today think being a cop is being able to go back and “relive” their “experiences” in Iraq or Afghanistan where they learned just how cheap a life is.
The situation probably wasn’t dire in terms of the cops safety. They seem to say WTF, he doesn’t comply he gets to die. When I carry for protection, my biggest fear is a cop with a gun deciding that I need to be shot to death for the mere possession of a handgun. And with a CCW, they often know you can carry, which put you at an additional risk someone who carries without a permit doesn’t have.
I came home from work early a few years ago in a little suburban ranch land neighborhood, only to see five or six cop cars and an unmarked parked in the street in front of my house.
I parked my car behind all the cop cars, told them that I lived there, and asked what was going on.
They said there was a report of a teenager prowling through yards and climbing over fences.
There were footprints in the snow leading behind my house, and they found a piece of paper in the backyard with phone numbers written on it...not written by me or my wife.
They followed the tracks all through the neighborhood, and they disappeared into the back door of the house across the street from me.
There was a plainclothes detective knocking on the door of the house, to no answer. The cop says loudly “We know you are in there, we just want to talk. Answer the door.
So the door opens and the teenager stands in the door. The detective is talking to him and everyone standing in the street, cops, neighbors, etc.:
DETECTIVE: What’s up?
KID: Just watching TV. What’s going on?
DETECTIVE: We have reports of people going though back yards, climbing over fences. You know anything about that?
KID: No, I have been watching TV.
DETECTIVE: Hm. Why are there footprints disappearing in your back door? Are those wet, muddy sneakers next to the back door yours?
KID: Yeah, but, I haven’t been outside.
DETECTIVE: Hm. (Suddenly reaches out to put his hand on the kids’s shoulder, but instead puts it on the back of the kid’s neck quickly) Really? If you haven’t been running around and climbing fences, why is your neck and head so sweaty?
He began to stutter and mumble, so the cops cuffed him and put him in as squad car as the detective came over to us grimacing as he wiped his hand on his pants, saying “Arggh. Need to wash my hands now.”
"We all know what happened to Rodney King. Well, Rodney wouldn't have got his ass kicked if he just followed this simple tip: When you see flashing lights in your mirror...stop immediately. Everybody knows, if the police have to come and get you, they're bringing an ass-kicking with them!
Haha...I clicked on the link and the accompanying picture was mostly a bunch of stupid white people protesting.
And I want to make it clear that I believe that the overwhelming majority of police officers do their very difficult jobs competently and professionally. It is a job that I freely admit I would not want to have. And it is because these tens of thousands of police officers are so deserving of our respect that we need to clearly identify those officers who do not live up to those same standards, who panic and kill people without reasonable cause. And killing an unarmed suspect is wrong, regardless of race or past criminal record. If a suspect is unarmed then there is no threat to the officer, and if they cannot size up the situation and determine when lethal force is necessary and when it is not then the don't belong on the force. They're just making all the good cops look bad.
I think the police officer in Minneapolis who killed Justine Diamond deserves his charges and his trial, though I doubt anything will come of it. I think the officers in this shooting should face some penalty for killing this man, though I doubt they will. If that makes me anti-police in the eyes of some around here then so be it.
I am nice to those who aren’t dipweeds. Which is why I am not nice to you.
Of course.
"...the overwhelming majority of officers do their very difficult jobs competently and professionally..."
Not so here. Prowl around some ones property a night is a good way to get shot.
Black Looters Matter. Just one more looting opportunity.
What kind of arrest record did the criminal have?
So, if you are a cop and some thief is holding something in his hand, how long do you take to decide if he is going to shoot you or not?
“So, if you are a cop and some thief is holding something in his hand, how long do you take to decide if he is going to shoot you or not?
It depends on what that “something” is! I don’t know about you, but I can readily tell the difference between an iPhone and a Glock 17!
My point is that life IS precious, and there are no do overs once you’re dead. And while I’d like to believe cops understand that, I look at the Parkland HS “school cop” Peterson and I am brought back to the reality that a lot of cops are chicken$hits who would take a life in an instant, but not put their’s in harm’s way for a bunch of kids who are being shot to hell!
In this particular shooting, I don’t know the right and the wrong, but at the end of the day an unarmed young man is dead, and it doesn’t really matter to me whether or not he was a piece of $hit. The Constitution is supposed to be our protection, but I suspect that in cop circles, it’s an “inconvenience” quite often.
“Everybody knows, if the police have to come and get you, they’re bringing an ass-kicking with them! “
But not a bullet in the head!
And if you’re a Chris Rock fan, I would direct your attention to this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4
This covers another “problem.”
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