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  • 2018-04-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Would a California Bill Stop Police From Shooting People Carrying 'Imitation Weapons'? (en)
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  • A proposed bill by two California lawmakers that would tighten the standards for lethal force on the part of police officers spurred claims from a conservative blog that it would enable second-guessing against law enforcement. The measure, state Assembly Bill 931, is co-sponsored by Democrats Shirley Weber and Kevin McCarty following the extrajudicial killing of 22-year-old Stephon Clark in Sacramento. Weber announced the bill on 3 April 2018, less than a month after Clark was shot and killed by officers in his grandmother's back yard in Sacramento, California. According to a statement provided to us by Weber's office: But conservative blog The Maven argued in a post that the measure would lead to officers being judged in hindsight regarding the use of force: A spokesperson for Weber, Joe Kocurek, rejected that reasoning in an e-mail to us. Kocurek said that the bill only changed the standard for authorizing the use of deadly force from whenever it was reasonable to cases when it was necessary, adding: The bill has already been endorsed by the California chapters of both the Black Lives Matter movement and the American Civil Liberties Union, among other social justice groups. It has also been opposed by unions representing police officers; Los Angeles Police Protective League president Craig Lally said that AB 931 will either get cops killed or allow criminals to terrorize our streets unchecked if passed. Clark's shooting has inspired a spate of protests in Sacramento, with demonstrators calling for charges to be filed against the officers who killed him. (en)
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