Killing of Stephon Clark

Biography

On March 18, 2018, Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old African-American man, was shot and killed by Sacramento Police Department officers Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet in Meadowview, a neighborhood of Sacramento, California. The encounter took place in the backyard of Clark's grandmother's house and was filmed by two police body cameras and a Sacramento County Sheriff's Department helicopter, which observed Clark from above and directed the officers to his location. The officers stated that they fired 20 rounds at Clark, believing that he had pointed a gun at them.

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