California's top law enforcement official said on Tuesday an independent in...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California’s top law enforcement official said on Tuesday an independent investigation by his office found no criminal charges were warranted against two Sacramento policemen in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man last year.
The DA’s decision on Saturday not to prosecute the officers, who police said mistook Clark’s cell phone for a gun, has angered community activists and touched off three nights of protests in Sacramento, the state capital. Becerra stressed that his investigation was requested by Sacramento’s police chief and conducted as a separate, independent examination of the evidence, rather than as a review of the police or prosecutors’ investigations. But the findings he outlined largely aligned with the conclusions announced on Saturday by District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.
The two officers, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, opened fire only when Clark advanced on them and ceased fire when he stopped, Becerra said. The release of the video in the immediate aftermath of the incident sparked two weeks of demonstrations in Sacramento last year and added fuel to the national debate over racial bias in the criminal justice system stemming from a string of police killings of unarmed black men in recent years.
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