Tensions are high in Sacramento after it was announced the officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark — will not face any charges. His fiancée is denouncing the decision.
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00:00Today the DA announced that the officers who shot my unarmed fiancee won't face any charges.
00:10We will not charge these officers with any criminal liability related to the shooting
00:15death and the use of force on Stephon Clark.
00:29I am continuing the shameful legacy of officers killing black men without consequences and
00:37breaking my family's hearts again.
00:40Was a crime committed?
00:43There's no question that a human being died.
00:47But when we look at the facts and the law and we follow our ethical responsibilities,
00:53the answer to that question is no.
01:12What I feel the DA announced today was not about what happened on March 16th, was not
01:19about what happened on March 17th, it was what happened on March 18th when the officers
01:24murdered my fiancee, murdered Stephon Clark.
01:29That's what this is about.
01:38Not about anything that happened before that.
01:43It's about the officers who murdered him, murdered him because he had a cell phone in
01:49his hand.
01:50That's right.
01:51You okay?
01:52You hit.
01:53He was still pointing at me.
01:54I don't see the gun.
01:55All of those statements that those officers made within the seconds after the shooting
01:56support the belief that they honestly, without hesitation, believed he had a gun.
02:17What I want people to understand, the fact that no criminal charges will be filed in
02:22this case does not diminish in any way the tragedy, the anger, the frustration that we've
02:33heard since the time of his death.
02:36And now he'll never come back to us.
02:47I would like accountability.
02:48I want justice and accountability.