Intercept columnist Shaun King tweeted:
Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Think Progress:
Stephan Clark, 22, was in the backyard of his grandparents’ house, where he had been living, when officers approached him on Sunday. Police said they were responding to reports that a man had been breaking into cars with a “toolbar”; deputies in a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department helicopter had informed them that the suspect was allegedly hiding in a backyard and pointed them in Clark’s direction.
When officers confronted Clark, they saw the cellphone in his hand and opened fire, discharging their weapons at least 20 times.
“The officers believed the suspect was pointing a firearm at them,” Sacramento police said in a statement afterward. “Fearing for their safety, the officers fired their duty weapons striking the suspect multiple times.”
“He was at the wrong place at the wrong time in his own backyard?” said Clark’s grandmother, Sequita Thompson, speaking with the Sacramento Bee. “C’mon now, they didn’t have to do that.”
This is similar to a shooting of a black man in Los Angeles last year. The man was holding the spray nozzle attachment to a hose and police thought that was a gun too and killed him in his own yard.
Speaking of Dylann Roof, his 18-year-old sister, Morgan, was arrested after bringing two weapons to school, authorities said. She said that she hoped students participating in last Wednesday's walkout to protest gun violence would "get shot." She suggested that only "black people" would be participating in the walkout.
This is who some of us are in the Age of Trump.