Hundreds of high school and college students walked out of Sacramento classes today to march to the Capitol to demand restrictions on police use of force after the officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark were not charged.
Community and family members gather at a wake for Stephon Clark last year. Protests continued this week after prosecutors decided not to charge the officers who shot and killed him.
“Sometimes when I walk around, or even in the car with my mom when I’m wearing a hoodie, we get pulled over,” Whitfield said. “Imagine if I was outside my house and agents shot me.” Both the Sacramento County district attorney and the state attorney general released investigations that found the shooting justified, decisions that have sparked a week of protests in the city. On Monday night,in an affluent neighborhood where demonstrations rarely take place. A Sacramento City Council meeting was briefly shut down Tuesday night in protest of the arrests, which included three journalists.
The legislation has become a focus of protests since the Clark investigations were released, and Clark’s family has been vocal in its support of it. Clark’s brother, Stevante Clark, and his grandmother, Sequita Thompson, appeared at a separate rally earlier in the day to support it.
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