Federal authorities said Tuesday they will launch their own investigation into two police officers who shot and killed a 22-year-old unarmed black man in Sacramento last year.
Federal authorities announced Tuesday they will conduct a civil rights review of the police shooting of an unarmed black man in California’s capital last March, a killing that triggered a year of racial upheaval in Sacramento and has become the focus of legislation to curb the use of deadly force.
The protests included a sit-in that closed a mall, a barbecue at police headquarters and the suspension of a City Council hearing Tuesday night after protesters chanted, “Drop the charges. Fire the officers.” Those chants were in reference to, including two journalists, on Monday night after a demonstration in one of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods.
A neighbor called 911 to report the vandalism, and a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department helicopter spotted Clark and directed Mercadal and Robinet to Clark’s location. “I was scared,” Mercadal said, according to the attorney general’s report. “I remember kneeling down on my left knee and returning fire because I believed we were being fired upon.”
Becerra said Tuesday his office did not review the Sacramento district attorney’s handling of the case, only the facts that were brought to light in the police investigation. He said his review came at the request of the Sacramento Police Department, which hoped that an independent assessment would allay community concerns about the impartiality of the investigation.“We weighed a lot of the subjective evidence,” Becerra said in coming to the same conclusion as the D.A.
The promise of additional federal oversight did little to ease the distrust that Becerra’s announcement brought, even though it was expected.
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