SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An official autopsy released Tuesday says an unarmed black man was shot seven times, not eight as concluded by an independent doctor hired by the man’s family. The officers shot Clark after chasing him into his grandparents’ backyard. They were responding to a report of someone breaking car windows, and said they shot Clark because they thought he was approaching them while pointing a handgun. The pathologist hired by the family, Dr. Bennet Omalu, told The Sacramento Bee he found it strange that the coroner’s office brought in its own independent pathologist to review the official autopsy. The direction of the bullets “do not support the assertion that Clark was shot primarily from behind as asserted by Omalu,” Reiber wrote.

Source: National Post May 02, 2018 00:33 UTC