The two police officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark while he was unarmed will not face criminal charges. In a statement on Saturday, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said the officers “acted lawfully under the circumstances.”
Schubert said the officers, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, who shot the 22-year-old black man, firing 20 rounds, feared for their lives last March when they mistook a white and pink cellphone Clark was holding for a gun. Clark was shot eight times, and six bullets hit his back. None entered the front of his body, an independent autopsy revealed.
