After Stephon Clark shooting, California lawmakers push to make it easier to prosecute police officers
by Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times
Apr 04, 2018
3 minutes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. ââ Flanked by civil rights advocates, California lawmakers announced legislation Tuesday designed to make it easier to prosecute police officers who kill civilians.
"We have been deeply saddened and frustrated by the killing of black and brown men by law enforcement," said Democratic Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, the bill's author. "It seems that the worst possible outcome is increasingly the only outcome that we experience."
The bill follows the Sacramento shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed 22-year-old black man who was killed in his grandmother's backyard last month by police looking for a
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