On March 18th, Sacramento police shot and killed a 22-year-old black man named Stephon Clark.
They fired over twenty shots at Clark in his own backyard, reportedly thinking he had a gun in his hand — he turned out to be holding an iPhone. Clark leaves behind a broken family and an entire community in anguish.
Time and time again, police officers have killed nonviolent civilians with little to no consequence. Nothing seems to change when black men and women die at the hands of law enforcement; it is truly painful to see American institutions treat their lives as almost worthless.