Stephon Clark was facing away from police when they shot him, lawyer saysStephon Clark, the unarmed California man killed by police in his grandmother’s backyard, was facing away from the officers when they fired and hit him seven times from behind, the family’s attorney announced Friday, saying an independent autopsy revealed falsehoods in law enforcement’s narrative. “The bullets were from behind.”Sacramento police have said the officers were responding to calls about someone breaking into cars when they located Clark in the backyard. 'They executed him': police killing of Stephon Clark leaves family shattered Read morePolice officials said the officers fired a total of 20 bullets and that they later discovered Clark was only holding his cellphone in his hands. The autopsy for the family was conducted by Bennet Omalu, an internationally recognized forensic pathologist famous for his work identifying head trauma in NFL players. “The chances of cops going to jail are very rare,” he said in a wide-ranging interview about the family’s fight to defend Clark while struggling through immense grief.

Source: The Guardian March 30, 2018 19:30 UTC