Meticulous and disturbing, this video by The New York Times breaks down every moment of the fatal shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man observed jumping over a neighbor's fence into his own yard. He was killed on the spot for this implied trespass by Sacramento police officers Terrance Mercadal and Jared Robinet, who guessed he was a vandal they were looking for.
Mercadal and Robinet muted their bodycams after they killed Clark. The officers did nothing wrong, say the authorities.
At 9:26 on a Sunday evening, Stephon Clark encountered two police officers. Twenty-three seconds later, they shot and killed him. We analyzed the extensive body camera and helicopter footage frame-by-frame and reviewed the autopsy report to explain what happened.
"Gun!' is what cops yell into their bodycams so they'll get away with it. But look on the bright side: without the bodycams, they'd be saving their breaths.
