https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/03/25/us/...era/index.html
An unarmed man is shot he did run however he was shot twenty times in his backyard it is claimed that he was breaking windows surely tasers are a thing.
That though isn’t the problem.
Why did officers mute their cameras to then speak among themselves after the shooting? Were they crafting a story? Why can these cameras even be muted to begin with?
UPDATE:About seven minutes after Sacramento police fatally shot an unarmed black man in his grandmother's backyard last week, officers were instructed to mute their body cameras.
Stephon Clark, 22, was in the backyard March 18 when two police officers shot him 20 times. Police said they thought he was holding a gun. But investigators say they did not find a weapon at the scene, only a cellphone near the man's body.
The Sacramento Police Department on Wednesday released two body camera videos, the 911 call, the helicopter footage and radio traffic from the shooting.
In both videos, an officer can be heard saying, "Hey, mute." Directly after, the video goes silent and officers talk among themselves.
autopsy contradicts officers statements you know the story they likely made up while they muted their microphones. It is believe he was shot in his side turned, and was shot 6 times in the back and once in the leg. This directly contradicts what the officers said happen:
Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old black man shot and killed by Sacramento police earlier this month, was shot eight times, at least six in the back, an independent autopsy commissioned by Clark's family found.
Family lawyer Benjamin Crump said the findings of the family's autopsy contradict the narrative put forth by the Sacramento Police Department.
The results were released at a Friday news conference by forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu, who conducted the autopsy.
The first wound was to Clark's side, which led Omalu to conclude Clark was facing the house when he was first shot. Six other shots hit him from behind and one in the thigh. The Sacramento Police Department has said Clark was shot at 20 times.
Sacramento Police initially said "officers believed the suspect [Clark] was pointing a firearm at them."
"Prior to the shooting, the involved officers saw the suspect facing them, advance forward with his arms extended, and holding an object in his hands," Sacramento Police said in a release a few days after the shooting. "At the time of the shooting, the officers believed the suspect was pointing a firearm at them. After an exhaustive search, scene investigators did not locate any firearms. The only items found near the suspect was a cell phone."