The two officers were responding to a 911 call about a man breaking vehicle windows when they encountered, then killed, Clark, an unarmed black man. The officers are never heard identifying themselves as police before fatally shooting Clark. [ ‘Brutal’ video shows white officer violently arresting black man sitting on his mother’s porch ]The gun officers thought Clark had in his hand was actually a white iPhone. “He was at the wrong place at the wrong time in his own back yard?” his grandmother, Sequita Thompson, told the Sacramento Bee. Arnold, a suspect in a double homicide, shot two police officers before he was shot and killed.
Source: Washington Post March 22, 2018 01:18 UTC