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Official Autopsy Of Stephon Clark, Killed By Police, Contradicts Family Autopsy

An unarmed black man was killed by Sacramento police in March. The coroner says he was shot seven times, three times in the back. A private autopsy found he was shot eight times, mostly in the back.
Black Lives Matter protesters stage a demonstration in front of the offices of Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert on April 4 in Sacramento, Calif. Protesters rallied to demand justice for Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by Sacramento police on March 18.

The official autopsy of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man shot and killed by Sacramento police in March, found that he was shot fewer times, and fewer times in the back, than a private autopsy had concluded.

An autopsy commissioned by Clark's family found that Clark was shot eight times, with at least six shots in the back,

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