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No Charges For Officers Who Shot Stephon Clark. Will There Ever Be?

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Anthony Cain and Clinton Primm, friends of Stephon Clark, rally outside Sacramento City Hall to protest his death. (Katie Orr/KQED)

People are outraged that two Sacramento police officers will not face criminal charges for killing 22-year old Stephon Clark last year, an unarmed Black man holding a cell phone. The state attorney general and the district attorney both say the officers’ use of deadly force was legally justified. But two bills in the Legislature could change the standards when deciding whether to prosecute officers, and how police train to use deadly force.

Guest: Marisa Lagos, political correspondent for KQED

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