Police shootings of unarmed African Americans have not ended. That's about the same pace of three fatal shootings per day that the newspaper has recorded since it began tracking police shootings in 2015. Two Sacramento police officers were responding to a 911 call Sunday night reporting that a man was breaking vehicle windows when they encountered Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, The Post reported, based on video police released Wednesday. In the years following the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., by a white police officer, police violence became a regular part of the political conversation. On the campaign trail, Republican nominee Donald Trump said he was “very troubled” by the police killing of a 40-year-old unarmed black man in Oklahoma in September 2016.

Source: Washington Post March 22, 2018 17:30 UTC