After Sacramento police fatally shot Stephon Clark last March, massive crowds of demonstrators overtook Sacramento’s streets. But nearly a year later, the mood this past Saturday — after the district attorney cleared the two officers of criminal charges — was different.
Just hours after DA Anne-Marie Schubert announced that she would not prosecute officers Jared Robinet and Terrence Mercadal for killing Clark, demonstrators with Black Lives Matter chanted outside a police station on Freeport Boulevard. The mood was often somber, however, and demonstrator Onethia Riley says that’s because it felt like the DA was blaming Clark for his own murder.
