The following article by Eugene Scott was posted on the Washington Post website March 29, 2018:
Stevonte Clark, whose brother Stephon Clark was fatally shot by police on March 18, joined a crowd of protesters interrupting the Sacramento City Hall meeting. (Reuters)
On the West Coast, citizens filled a Sacramento City Hall meeting Tuesday protesting lawmakers’ response — or lack of it — to the fatal killing of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was fatally shot by police earlier this month. Police say they believed he had a gun, but only a cellphone was found near his body.
On the same day, officials in the Deep South declined to charge two Baton Rouge police officers in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling nearly two years ago. The 2016 shooting came the day after a Midwesterner — Philando Castile — was killed by a Minnesota police officer after the St. Paul man told the law enforcement officer that he legally had a gun in the car. Continue reading “The White House views the police killings of unarmed black men as a local issue. They aren’t.”