Video Shows Sacramento Police Shooting Unarmed Black Man In Grandparents' Backyard 
 
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 Sacramento police officers shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark, a father of two who was unarmed, in the backyard of his grandparents' home on Sunday night. 
 
 "The only thing that I heard was pow, pow, pow, pow, and I got to the ground," Sequita Thompson, Clark's grandmother, told The Sacramento Bee. "I opened that curtain and he was dead." 
 
 A police department statement says: "Prior to the shooting, the involved officers saw the suspect facing them, advance forward with his arms extended, and holding an object in his hands. At the time of the shooting, the officers believed the suspect was pointing a firearm at them. After an exhaustive search, scene investigators did not locate any firearms. The only item found near the suspect was a cell phone." 
 
 Clark was pronounced dead on the scene by personnel from the fire department. 
 
 On Wednesday, the Sacramento Police Department released video and audio of the incident: body camera footage from the two officers involved in the shooting; video from the police helicopter that directed the officers to Clark; audio of the initial 911 call reporting a man in a hoodie breaking car windows; and audio from the police dispatch. 
 
 Sacramento Police Department YouTube 
 
 Taken together, the audio and video paints a portrait of an incident that moved heartbreakingly fast and then achingly slowly. 
 
 The recordings begin with a man calling 911 to report a man in a hoodie and dark pants breaking car windows. The officer in the helicopter spots Clark running and walking through backyards, and tells officers on the ground that the suspect has just used a "toolbar" to break the window of a residence. 
 
 With direction from the helicopter officer, the officers on the ground follow and confront Clark. 
 
 In a dark backyard lit only by what appear to be gun-mounted flashlights, the officers' body camera footage shows what happened next. 
 
 Sacramento Police Department YouTube 
 
 Sacramento Police Department YouTube 
 
 "Show me your hands — gun!" the first officer yells. A few short seconds later he yells, "Show me your hands! Gun! Gun! Gun!" 
 
 The second officer begins firing multiple shots. Then the first officer begins firing, too — they fire about 20 shots in all. 
 
 Hidden by tall grass and the darkness, Clark's body isn't visible, but there are no signs of movement. 
 
 The first officer yells again, "Show me your hands!" and the other adds, "Let's see your hands." 
 
 "He's down, no movement," the second officer tells the dispatch. "We're going to need additional units." 
 
 "You all right, you hit?" says one officer. "Yeah, I'm good," the other officer replies. 
 
 The first officer reloads his weapon. 
 
 "He's still down, he's not moving," the officer says. "We can't see the gun." 
 
 Backup units arrive on the scene. 
 
 "He came up, and he kind of approached us, hands out, and then fell down," the first officer tells one of the new arrivals. 
 
 The two officers who fired their weapons continue to hang back, holding position, occasionally yelling that they need to see Clark's hands. 
 
 The second officer tells someone that the suspect had "something in his hands, looked like a gun from our perspective." 
 
 For more than five minutes, the two officers are seen standing behind the corner of the house with their weapons drawn. 
 
 When they finally approach the man they shot, one of the officers handcuffs Clark's lifeless body. 
 
 "We're going to need CPR stuff," he says. The officers put on gloves and talk about going to get a rescue mask. 
 
 Then officer one says "Hey, mute?" and the video's sound clicks off. The last two minutes of the video are silent. 
 
 The two officers involved in the shooting have been placed on paid administrative leave. The officers have been with the department for two and four years, respectively; both had four years' prior law enforcement experience with other agencies before joining the Sacramento force. 
 
 The Bee reports that before police released the videos to the public, they first showed them to Clark's family: 
 
 "Allowing family to see such videos before they are released to the public is part of a city policy adopted in late 2016 by the city of Sacramento after the fatal shooting by police of Joseph Mann, a mentally ill black man. Mann's shooting led to major reforms in the department, including a requirement that all patrol officers wear body cameras. "The reforms also require police to release videos in 'critical incidents' such as officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody within 30 days of the event. Sacramento police Chief Daniel Hahn, the city's first African American chief, has been releasing videos more quickly than the requirement and for a broader range of events than covered by the new law since taking over the department last summer." 
 
 The videos of the last minutes of Clark's life have sparked questions in Sacramento and online, about how the police handled the situation — and how they might have thought Clark had a gun. 
 
 "The object ultimately determined to be what police saw in Clark's hand was a cellphone his girlfriend and mother of his two children, Salena Manni, had loaned him," the Bee reports. "It was in a rose gold-colored case with a black clip on the back for holding items like credit cards, she said." 
 
 There is also a debate over what possible repercussions the two police officers might face. 
 
 Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg released a statement on Wednesday evening. 
 
 "I viewed the videos carefully," he said. "Based on the videos alone, I cannot second guess the split-second decisions of our officers and I'm not going to do that." 
 
 "The questions raised by the community and councilmembers are appropriate and must be answered during the investigation," he continued. "For instance, what are the protocols regarding use of force and for rendering emergency aid during officer involved shootings?" 
 
 Sacramento police say additional video and audio will be released soon. 
 
 "This is an unfortunate moment," community activist Berry Accius told the Bee. "This moment is probably going to set us back. ... We got transparency. Now we need accountability. We can't get that young man back." ||||| (CNN) Protests erupted in Sacramento four days after Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, was shot by police in his grandmother's backyard. Demonstrators blocked the entrance to an arena where an NBA game was scheduled Thursday, chanting "Black Lives Matter" and the name of the 22-year-old who was killed. 
 
 Police said the officers who fired at Clark believed he had a gun. Investigators said they did not find a weapon, only a cell phone. 
 
 The shooting sparked an outcry in the city, bringing protesters to the Golden 1 Center, where the Sacramento Kings defeated the Atlanta Hawks in a nearly empty arena. 
 
 Most ticketholders weren't able to get inside, and the Sacramento Police said via Twitter that "no one else will be admitted to the #SacKings game." 
 
 Outside the arena, protesters linked arms and chanted at fans, "Join us or go home!" 
 
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 The NBA and the Kings made the decision to close the doors, Sgt. Vance Chandler of the Sacramento Police Department told CNN. The game started with a delay and the team said it would refund the tickets. 
 
 Protesters began to disperse at night, and police made no arrests. 
 
 After the game, Sacramento Kings owner and chairman Vivek Ranadivé addressed the crowd, joined by the team's players, coaches, front office and executives. 
 
 "On Sunday we had a horrific, horrific tragedy in our community," Ranadivé said, in reference to the shooting, and conveyed sympathies for the Clark family. 
 
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 "We at the Kings recognize people's ability to protest peacefully and we respect that," he said. "We here at the Kings recognize that we have a big platform. It's a privilege, but it's also a responsibility. It's a responsibility that we take very seriously. And we stand here before you -- old, young, black, white, brown -- and we are all united in our commitment." 
 
 "We recognize that it's not just business as usual, and we are going to work really hard to bring everybody together to make the world a better place, starting with our own community, and we're going to work really hard to prevent this kind of a tragedy from happening again." 
 
 Protests in Sacramento 
 
 Earlier in the day, protesters had also marched into Sacramento's City Hall and onto an interstate highway as the mayor called for calm. 
 
 They called for the arrest of the two officers and demanded to see Police Chief Daniel Hahn as they marched into City Hall. The protest, which was organized by Black Lives Matter Sacramento, briefly spilled onto Interstate 5 after the group left City Hall. 
 
 "A phone is not a gun," protesters chanted. 
 
 Less than an hour before the protest, Mayor Darrell Steinberg said Clark's death warrants a thorough review of the shooting, and of police policies and procedures. 
 
 "It is vital that we give voice to the pain in our community, especially the African-American community," the mayor said. 
 
 Steinberg said, "I feel the community's anguish." He called for the public not to rush to judgment until an investigation is completed. 
 
 "Emotions are understandably high. People are anguished," he said. "I understand it and we understand it. I urge our community to remain peaceful." 
 
 The controversial shooting 
 
 The incident began on Sunday after 9 p.m., when Sacramento officers responded to a report that a man had broken car windows and was hiding in a backyard. They pursued a man who hopped a fence into the grandmother's property. 
 
 The shooting was captured by the two officers' body cameras and a police helicopter; that footage was released on Wednesday in an effort to be transparent. 
 
 When asked whether releasing the videos increased trust with the police department, he said: "I have seen some of the conversations change since we've had that video released to the facts of the case, as opposed to filling in the facts because there is a void of facts. I think that's a positive change." 
 
 On Sunday, officers fired 20 times at Clark, hitting him multiple times, police told CNN affiliate KOVR . The two officers have since been placed on paid administrative leave amid a use of force investigation. 
 
 Stephon Clark was killed Sunday. 
 
 The body camera videos show the brief encounter between police and Clark, lasting less than a minute, from the moment one of the officers yelled: "Hey, show me your hands. Stop. Stop." 
 
 Police said the officers entered the front yard and saw the suspect along the side of the home. Police said the man "turned and advanced toward the officers while holding an object" extended in front of him. 
 
 "Show me your hands!" one of the officers yelled. "Gun, gun, gun." 
 
 Seconds later, officers opened fire as they took cover near a wall. 
 
 As more police arrived at the scene, someone is heard asking, "What did he have on him?" 
 
 An officer responded "... something in his hands. It looked like a gun from our perspective." 
 
 Clark's family members have disputed the police account. 
 
 Clark's grandmother said she was inside the house when the shots were fired, and saw her grandson with an iPhone. Stevante Clark, Stephon's brother, said the two often stayed at their grandmother's house. He said he's "livid" with the police right now. 
 
 Stevante Clark, left, and his brother Stephon Clark. 
 
 He said his brother was a father of two. He was fashionable and got regular manicures and pedicures. 
 
 "He was like Ric Flair," his brother said, referring to the stylish wrestler. "He was an entrepreneur. He would make money selling shoes ... playing online for video games."
– Body camera and helicopter footage of Sacramento police officers firing some 20 rounds at a 22-year-old father of two holding only a cellphone is out—and the reaction is intense. A day after the videos and 911 call audio were released, protesters blocked the entrance to Sacramento's Golden 1 Center Thursday, shouting "Stephon Clark" and "Black Lives Matter," reports CNN. Initially delayed, an NBA game between the Sacramento Kings and Atlanta Hawks went on to be played in front of the relatively few fans who could get inside before the doors were closed to everyone else. (This photo shows an empty upper deck along with empty sections in the lower part of the arena.) Earlier Thursday, protesters shut down Interstate 5 following a march to City Hall, calling for the arrest of two officers involved in Sunday's shooting. Video shows both firing at Clark after one officer says, "Show me your hands! Gun! Gun! Gun!" per NPR. It's another five minutes before the officers approach Clark and discuss life-saving measures. One officer then asks for the camera's sound to be muted. "It is vital that we give voice to the pain in our community, especially the African-American community," Mayor Darrell Steinberg said Thursday, urging protesters to remain peaceful. "I feel the community's anguish." Police say the protesters began to disperse later Thursday. No arrests were made, per CNN.