Sacramento police release body cam footage of officers fatally shooting unarmed black man in his own backyard

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• Sacramento Police released video and audio footage on Wednesday of police officers fatally shooting an unarmed black man in his backyard.
• The suspect, 22-year-old Stephon Clark, was later found to only be holding an iPhone.
• Police maintain that Clark was guilty of breaking car windows, but his grandmother disagrees, saying that he was much shorter than the suspect.

Sacramento police fatally shot an unarmed black in his own backyard on Sunday after receiving a 911 call about a man breaking car windows in the neighborhood.

Two officers went into the suspect's backyard before firing 20 shots and killing 22-year-old Stephon Clark who they believed was armed.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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