Shooting of Stephon Clark at his family’s domestic,after police wrongly assumed he had a gun, sparks unrest in SacramentoHundreds of California protesters shut down freeways and marched in the state capital after police fatally shot an unarmed black father in his grandparents’ backyard, and firing 20 rounds into the 22-year-old who was only carrying a cellphone. Sacramento demonstrators shouting “Shut it down” disrupted rush-hour traffic on Thursday night and blocked thousands of NBA fans from entering the Sacramento Kings arena to protest the killing of Stephon Clark,who was shot in his family’s domestic on Sunday after police wrongly assumed he was armed with a gun. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk