Sacramento, Gaza Strip, Orlando: Your Evening Briefing
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Photo Credit Sacramento Police Department, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 1. A private autopsy found that Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man who was killed by the Sacramento police in his grandmother’s backyard, had been shot eight times from behind or the side.
The autopsy also concluded that Mr. Clark’s death was not instantaneous, raising questions about why he had not been given more immediate medical care. The Sacramento police, who released the photo of the shooting above, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the private autopsy.
A lawyer said the findings proved that Mr. Clark could not have been moving in a threatening fashion toward Sacramento officers when they opened fire.
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Photo Credit Anton Vaganov/Reuters 2. “These are difficult times in the Russia-U.S. relationship.”
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