The World Socialist Web Site reports
On Friday [March 30], the results of an independent autopsy requested by Stephon Clark's family were released to the public, confirming that police shot the unarmed 22-year-old African-American man seven times in the back and side amid a volley of gunfire in his grandparents' backyard.
The incident began when two police officers responding to a report of someone breaking car windows confronted Clark on March 18. Body camera footage shows that, without identifying themselves, police demanded Clark put his hands up and chased him into his grandparents' backyard. At that point, one of the officers yelled "Gun!" and the two fired 20 shots at Clark, who was holding his cell phone in one hand.
The officers, identified as Terrence Mercadel and Jared Robinet, stood pointing their guns at Clark's corpse for several minutes until backup arrived, then handcuffed his body and made a perfunctory attempt to resuscitate Clark before pronouncing him dead. The officers then turned off their microphones for several minutes, presumably to get their stories straight off the record.
Autopsy results released by a private medical examiner hired by the family's attorney show that [the bullets of] Mercadel and Robinet [hit] Clark a total of eight times. Dr. Bennet Omalu's analysis found that Clark was shot four times in the lower back, twice in the neck, once under an armpit, and once in the front of his thigh.
"You could reasonably conclude that he received seven gunshot wounds from his back", Dr. Omalu told a press conference Friday adding that any one of those would have been fatal on its own. The doctor described extensive damage to Clark's body from the torrent of bullets, which resulted in a collapsed lung and a shattered vertebra.
Dr. Omalu also told reporters that Clark did not die immediately from his injuries but lived another three to 10 minutes after he was shot. He noted that, while it is impossible to say whether Clark would have survived had he received medical attention sooner, "every minute you wait decreases probability of survival." According to video released by the Sacramento Police Department, six minutes elapsed between the firing of the final bullet and the time CPR was administered to Clark's dead body.
The results further discredit the police narrative that Mercadel and Robinet believed Clark posed a danger to their safety and was moving in a menacing manner toward the officers when they gunned him down. In a statement, Clark family attorney Benjamin Crump wrote: "These findings from the independent autopsy contradict the police narrative that we've been told. This independent autopsy affirms that Stephon was not a threat to police and was slain in another senseless police killing under increasingly questionable circumstances."
The videos, released Friday as Baton Rouge's police chief announced the firing of the white officer who shot Sterling six times, came days after the state attorney general declined to bring criminal charges against the two officers involved in the incident.
(Score: 2) by Entropy on Tuesday April 03 2018, @05:35PM (5 children)
https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2016/04/cell-phone-gun-inventor-i-knew-some-people-wouldnt-it-i-wasnt-expecting-so-m [minnpost.com]
Can you tell? You have 1/4 of a second to tell before he pulls that trigger.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @07:41PM
Nice fake drama, racist.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Tuesday April 03 2018, @07:44PM
That item is vaporware.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @08:01PM (1 child)
How about using some common sense you shitmaggot. If our soldiers acted like our cops there would be an international outrage. This is not hyperbole our soldiers are held to much higher standards
I hope someone accidently blasts you in the face. I'll make sure to remind your family that it was a tense situation with plenty of blame to go around so they don't Monday morning quarterback the situation at your funeral.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @11:10PM
We just marked the 50th year since the My Lai Massacre.
In 4 hours, USA's military men murdered 504 civilians, 176 of them being infants or toddlers.
People who were in-country have reported that this was a routine occurrence.
There is no "if" about it.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @10:27PM
LEO apologist, you're a prick who apparently should be lumped in with the psychopath fuckers. Hmm, murder and conspiracy to cover it up. Maybe a few years in the pen will have you singing a different tune and siding with liberals a bit more regarding police misconduct and humane treatment of prisoners.