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Video:Sacramento Pigs Shot Unarmed Black Man in His Yard 20 Times. Update:The DA won’t file charges

I wonder how much traction an reparation proposal centered around the relocation of Africans in America back would gain. Pretty sure majority would decline to go but it’s an opportunity to clear the air.
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephon-clark-shot-dead-by-sacramento-police-while-holding-cellphone/

Sacramento police fatally shoot unarmed man holding cellphone in backyard

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Relatives, activists and Sacramento officials are questioning why police shot at an unarmed black man 20 times, killing him, when he turned out to be holding only a cellphone in his grandparents' backyard. Police in Sacramento released new video of the shooting. Officers said they thought he had a gun, but he was holding a cell phone, CBS News' John Blackstone reports.

Relatives have identified the man as Stephan Alonzo Clark, 22, according to The Sacramento Bee. His fiance, Salena Manni, the mother of his sons, ages 1 and 3, said his first name was Stephon.

"We're mourning right now and so we need our time to mourn," she said Wednesday as the family gathered in his grandparents' home.

Police say the man was spotted breaking at least three vehicle windows Sunday night. Sheriff's deputies in a helicopter say they saw him break a neighbor's sliding glass door.

Two arriving officers chased him into the backyard of his grandparents' home, where he was staying. The department says he refused orders to stop and show his hands. He advanced toward the officers holding an object extended in front of him, the department said. The officers thought he was pointing a handgun and opened fire, fearing for their safety, the department said.

In all, police fired 20 shots, Blackstone reports.

No gun was found and only the cellphone was found near his body when more officers arrived and approached him about five minutes after the shooting, the department said.

"He was at the wrong place at the wrong time in his own backyard?" Clark's grandmother, Sequita Thompson, told The Sacramento Bee. "C'mon now, they didn't have to do that."

"They will pay for this," Clark's brother Stevante told Blackstone. "You're going to know his name forever ... You're going to remember it like how you know Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice. You're going to know him. You're going to remember this."

"I know there could have been another way. He didn't have to die," Stevante told CBS Sacramento.
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If you are in the military, you have rules of engagement you must follow before discharging your weapon
- state and local police fail to follow, adopt and/or implement the same rules of engagement
- a huge amount of these cops with prior service in Iraq and Afghanistan get monthly disability checks from the Veterans Affairs due to having been diagnosed with PTSD.....so now you have a person with mental health issues with a weapon
 
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HarryHippie said:
I wonder how much traction an reparation proposal centered around the relocation of Africans in America back would gain. Pretty sure majority would decline to go but it’s an opportunity to clear the air.
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It would Separate the real from the fake

Edit: For those that would not want us to have our own land. It says that we want want america to benefit off what we're good at. We put our best to serve the white man interest. Great minds, Musicians and athletes benefit america more it does us
 
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http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article206310629.html

With shooting of Stephon Clark, faith in Sacramento police is on the line again

This is a test for the Sacramento Police Department.

For months, Chief Daniel Hahn has promised more transparency from his embattled institution, vowing that shooting suspects first and asking questions later will be a thing of the past. This is a new day, with new management, Hahn has said, and, so, the community has waited patiently for answers about the questionable death of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was chased into his own backyard by two officers and a helicopter on Sunday night, and killed in a hail of bullets.

Now we have footage from the officers' body cameras, released, to Hahn's credit, ahead of schedule on Wednesday. Now the question is: Is this a test the police will be able to pass?

This footage does not look good for the department.

At first, the story was that Clark was using a “tool bar” — whatever that is — to try to break into a house in the 7500 block of 29th Street. Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies, responding in a helicopter to a 911 call about someone breaking into cars, said they saw the young man use this mysterious object to before dashing into an adjacent yard.

As it turns out, that yard belonged to Clark’s grandparents and the 22-year-old father of two toddlers was only holding an iPhone. The “tool bar,” like the equally mysterious gun that officers thought he was holding when they shot him, was nowhere to be found.

From the bodycam footage, we now know that it took only seconds for the officers to start firing on Clark when they encountered him in the dark. Neither identified himself as a police officer. One yelled "show me your hands" and both screamed "gun” in the same breath before letting off a barrage of shots.

Even under the light from the helicopter, it's tough to see whether Clark was advancing toward officers as they later reported. More troubling is that, as additional officers arrived about six minutes later, one cop can be heard saying, "Hey, mute." Then the audio cuts out as the officers all turn off their microphones, but the video shows them continuing to talk to each other and at least one civilian.

“We asked, ‘Can they do that,’” Les Simmons, a social justice activist who viewed the footage with two of Clark’s family members, told The Bee. “… It was a moment of, what are they doing? What are they saying?”

Our questions exactly. It's an understatement to say that this will not build community trust.

These are some of the same questions that arose after the death of Joseph Mann, another black man who died in a hail of bullets after being chased by police and sheriff’s deputies. In that case, audio suspiciously buried in police dashcam footage revealed two of the officers on the scene that day in Del Paso Heights tried to run over Mann with their squad car.

The fallout led to a series of reforms, including the new policy about releasing police videos within 30 days, and the hiring of Hahn on the premise that he would help build more trust between the department and communities of color through transparency and collaborative policing.

On the former promise, Hahn has delivered. On several occasions, he has released police footage even though the department was not required to do so. In some cases, as in the Clark shooting, he released it weeks early.

But this is the first publicized instance on Hahn's watch in which the pictures and the officers' words don't tell the same story. And given the tragic outcome, there are critical questions. Was lethal force really required against a suspected car burglar? Could non-lethal force have been used? Could the officers have defused the situation?

Was Clark really advancing on police when he was shot? And did the officers even have the right man? The video released by the sheriff's department starts as Clark is hopping a fence, not as he is breaking car windows. Did the officers mistake Clark for someone else in the dark of night?

And Mayor Darrell Steinberg, while supporting Hahn, had another question: What are the protocols in officer-involved shootings for rendering emergency aid?

Hahn and the department must answer, if only to quell rumors swirling in the community and fueling national headlines. We hope the many investigations into this case will clear the air.

“The people of District 8 are highly upset,” Councilman Larry Carr told Hahn at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting.

That’s was as much a statement of fact as it was a warning. Hahn can't afford to fail.
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Olorun22 said:
It would Separate the real from the fake

Edit: For those that would not want us to have our own land. It says that we want want america to benefit off what we're good at. We put our best to serve the white man interest. Great minds, Musicians and athletes benefit america more it does us
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Liberia?
 
We built this fucking country. It was paid for with our blood.

Fucking asking for reparations. You don't have to ask for your own shit. You take it.
 
And both officers should be executed for hate crimes. Crimes against humanity. Domestic terrorism.
Treason. Treat them like war criminals.

Death penalty.

If not.... Prepare for another war. And asalways they fired the first shot.
 
King Du said:
We built this fucking country. It was paid for with our blood.

Fucking asking for reparations. You don't have to ask for your own shit. You take it.
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Lmaooo outmanned, outgunned

That’s short game.

What the god say

“Make another Hov”

The mass of our people are in one place. It’s imperative we connect with them. For us and them.
 
HarryHippie said:
Lmaooo outmanned, outgunned

That’s short game.

What the god say

“Make another Hov”

The mass of our people are in one place. It’s imperative we connect with them. For us and them.
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Nothing wrong with connecting but millions of people cant move back to one continent over just a century. The Diaspora is huge
 
HellCzar said:
Nothing wrong with connecting but millions of people cant move back to one continent over just a century. The Diaspora is huge
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I don’t want to derail this thread cause homie deserves proper respect and this is a topic of its own sorta

I’m not sure if you’re implying it can’t be done or it would take that long. But I’d disagree on both. Millions can certainly move back and it wouldn’t take a half century
King Du said:
who playing the short game tho???

we're always outmanned, and always out gunned.....


that's why we gotta fight with this....

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Everybody gotta have a dream
 
HarryHippie said:
I don’t want to derail this thread cause homie deserves proper respect and this is a topic of its own sorta

I’m not sure if you’re implying it can’t be done or it would take that long. But I’d disagree on both. Millions can certainly move back and it wouldn’t take a half century

Everybody gotta have a dream
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Ill make the thread. I dont have the ability to move posts tho
 
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