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A tearful Sequita Thompson (centre) discusses the shooting of her grandson, Stephon Clark, during a news conference yesterday
THE grandmother of an unarmed black man shot dead by police in Sacramento, California, last week has called for change in the way police confront suspects.
Sequita Thompson gave a press conference on Monday night and recounted the events of March 18, when Stephon Clark was shot 20 times in the back garden of her house, where he lived.
“They didn’t have to kill him like that, they didn’t have to shoot him that many times,” she said.
Washington’s response to a downed jet shows a superpower still reaching for overwhelming force even as its wars repeatedly fail, says NICK WRIGHT
There is no doubt that Trump’s regime is a right-wing one, but the clash between the state apparatus and the national and local government is a good example of what any future left-wing formation will face here in Britain, writes NICK WRIGHT