Splintered Ashes Case Study

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Splintered Ashes: Black Men and Police Brutality As racial unrest continues, the barbaric behavior of law enforcement officers, long feared by civil rights leaders is now a reality. Thus, guns have become instruments of death and devastation, in cities across the U.S. Case in point: The March 18 murder of Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old Black man shot by Sacramento police officers in his grandparents’ backyard. The melee began, when a man called 911 and said someone “busted his truck windows out, and he was in people’s backyards.” When police arrived, they spotted a man in the backyard whom they said: “picked up a toolbar and broke a window to someone’s home.” The man then climbed a fence and went into another yard. At this point,

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