Funeral for man killed in police shooting as California capital city braces for more protests

Record ID: 1110122

  • Title: Funeral for man killed in police shooting as California capital city braces for more protests
  • Date: 29th March 2018
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) REVEREND AL SHARPTON, GIVING EULOGY FOR THE FUNERAL OF STEPHON CLARK, SAYING: "I am. I am. Let me say this. Stevante and this family is why we're here. You don't tell people in pain how to handle their pain. You don't tell people when you kill their loved one how to grieve. We did not come for you uppity bourgeois proper folk. We came for Stevante, we
  • Embargoed: 12th April 2018 21:48
  • Keywords: Reverend Al Sharpton Stephon Clark funeral Sacramento California eulogy
  • Location: SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • City: SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice
  • Reuters ID: LVA002891P9AF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A funeral service was held in Sacramento on Thursday (March 29) for an unarmed black man killed by police in his family's back yard on March 18.
    At the funeral service for 22-year-old father of two Stephon Clark, civil rights leader Al Sharpton, standing in front of Clark's casket, spoke to a crowd of hundreds of people while Clark's older brother, Stevante, hugged and kissed Sharpton on the cheek.
    "This is not a Sacramento fight anymore, this is a national fight," said Sharpton, a pastor and former Democratic presidential candidate. "We're going to make Donald Trump and the whole world deal with the issue of police misconduct."
    Clark's death was the most recent in a string of fatal shootings of black men by police that have triggered protests across the United States and renewed a national debate about bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.
    Clark was gunned down on the night of March 18 in his grandparents' backyard by police responding to a report that someone was breaking windows. Police said the officers who shot Clark 20 times feared he was holding firearm, but that he only had a cellphone. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has said state investigators will oversee the investigation and review the Police Department's procedures and practices.
    Protesters were to gather outside Sacramento County District Attorney's office later on Thursday.
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