unarmed black man killed by Sacramento police last week.
“You don’t know what it’s like until you experience it,” Clark’s uncle, Curtis Gordon, told media. “You can see it on TV, it’s totally OK to deal with those realities when it’s just through a television and they’re not in your home. It’s different now.”
Television cameras and national media were there Monday for a news conference where Gordon supported Clark’s grandmother, who sobbed uncontrollably as she recounted the shooting and asked why something significantly less lethal than a barrage of 20 bullets could not have been used by police.
They were there Tuesday morning when the city’s first black police chief pleaded for calm after more than a week of unrest and later in the day when Clark’s brother and supporters disrupted a City Council meeting and then demonstrators for a second time blocked thousands of NBA fans from entering the arena for the hometown Kings game.
They will be there Wednesday for Clark’s wake and on Thursday when the Rev. Al Sharpton plans to give the eulogy at Clark’s funeral.
For all the angst and raw emotions, grieving and weary family members are skeptical that any substantive change will result before the next young black man dies from police gunfire and siphons away the national media and banner headlines.
Here’s a look at photos from Sacramento...
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Stevante Clark, brother of Stephon Clark, disrupts a special city council meeting at Sacramento City Hall on March 27, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif. Hundreds packed a special city council at Sacramento City Hall to address concerns over the shooting death of Stephon Clark by Sacramento police.
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Protesters stand outside of council chambers during a special city council meeting at Sacramento City Hall on March 27, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif. (Getty Images)
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Protesters hold signs against the window as Stevante Clark, brother of Stephon Clark, disrupts a special city council meeting at Sacramento City Hall on March 27, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif. (Getty Images)
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Attendees pray after Stevante Clark, brother of Stephon Clark, disrupted a special city council meeting at Sacramento City Hall on March 27, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif.
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An attendee holds a cell phone like a gun during a special city council meeting at Sacramento City Hall on March 27, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif.
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A tearful Sequita Thompson, center, discusses the shooting of her grandson, Stephon Clark, during a news conference, Monday, March 26, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. Clark, who was unarmed, was shot and killed by Sacramento police officers who were responding to a call about person smashing car windows a week ago. Thompson was accompanied by Clark’s uncle, Curtis Gordon, left, and attorney Ben Crump, right.
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Black Lives Matter protesters block the entrance to the Golden 1 Center where the Sacramento Kings are playing on March 27, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif.
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Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn, center, flanked by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, second from left, and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, right, announced that he has asked Becerra’s office to be part of an independent investigation of the shooting death of Stephon Clark by two Sacramento Police officers, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif.
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Sacramento Kings forward Justin Jackson (25) wears a T-shirt bearing the name of Stephon Clark during a game at Golden 1 Center on Sunday March 25, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif. The Kings and Celtics wore shirts bearing the name of the unarmed man, Stephon Clark, who was killed by Sacramento police. The black warm-up shirts have ”Accountability. We are One” on the front and ”Stephon Clark” on the back.
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Participants during a candlelight vigil in honor of Stephon Clark confront police after the event was coming to an end following a march in South Sacramento, Calif., on March 24, 2018.
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Sacramento police officers stand their ground after one of the department’s patrol cars was vandalized by participants of a candlelight vigil in honor of Stephon Clark in South Sacramento on Friday, March 23, 2018.
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A sign is seen painted on the window of a car during a protest over the police shooting of Stephon Clark, in Sacramento, Calif., March 23, 2018.
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Stevante Clark the brother of Stephon Clark is given flowers as he stopped in an SUV at the intersection of Florin and 29th Street during a vigil for his brother in Sacramento, Calif., on Fri., March 23, 2018. His brother Stephon was unarmed when he was shot and killed by Sacramento Police in his grandparents back yard.
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Kianshay Brown of Sacramento stands on a car on Meadoview Rd. as she joined participants of a candlelight vigil in honor of Stephon Clark who marched to the area near where Clark was shot at his grandparents home in Sacramento, Calif., on March 23, 2018.
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Katelyn Camero, 6 1/2, left, David Massey, 9, center, and his brother Jayden Shermer, 8, right, participate in a candlelight vigil for Stephon Clark at the intersection of Florin and 29th Street in Sacramento, Calif., on March 23, 2018.
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Deonnah Conway holds candles during a protest over the police shooting of Stephon Clark, in Sacramento, Calif., March 23, 2018.
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Amauria Hawkins, right, light candles spelling out ”ZOE” the nickname of their friend Stephon Clark during a candlelight vigil for Stephon Clark at the intersection of Florin and 29th Street on Friday, March 23, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif.
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Veronica Curry, front with hoop ear rings raises her fist with other Black Lives Matter supporters during a rally for Stephon Clark, a man that was shot by Sacramento Police Sunday night on southbound Interstate 5 near Old Sacramento, Calif., on Thursday, March 22, 2018.
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CHP officer Matthew Burgess, pleads with Black Lives Matter supporters to move off Interstate 5 after a they converged on the interstate and closed it down during rush hour traffic in Sacramento in protest of the death of unarmed Stephon Clark in South Sacramento on Thursday, March 22, 2018.
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Hundreds of protesters demonstrating against the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark shut down Interstate 5 in both directions in downtown Sacramento at the height of the afternoon commute.
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Black Lives Matter supporters walk on to the northbound Interstate 5 on-ramp from I street during a rally for Stephon Clark, a man that was shot by Sacramento Police Sunday night on southbound Interstate 5 near Old Sacramento, Calif., on Thursday, March 22, 2018.
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Protesters surround a police car as they shut down Interstate 5 in both directions in downtown Sacramento, Calif., at the height of the afternoon commute on March 22, 2018. Protests erupted in Sacramento four days after Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, was shot by police in his grandmother’s backyard. Police said the officers who fired at Clark believed he had a gun. Investigators said they did not find a weapon, only a cell phone.
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A California Highway Patrol officer chases a participant of the Black Lives Matter march as the group marches on to Interstate 5 in Sacramento on Thursday, March 22, 2018.
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Stevante Clark, the older brother of Stephon Clark, talks with supporters after they shut down the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, March 22, 2018 causing many Kings fans to miss the game against the Atlanta Hawks. Protesters decrying this week’s fatal shooting of Stephon Clark an unarmed black man marched from Sacramento City Hall and onto the nearby freeway Thursday, disrupting rush hour traffic and culminating at the Golden 1 Center.
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A young demonstrator holds a photo of Stephon Clark to the glass of the doors to Golden 1 Center as protestors block the entrance to the arena in Sacramento, Calif., on March 22, 2018.
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A Black Lives Matter protester fights with a man trying to enter the Golden 1 Center to see the Sacramento Kings play on March 27, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif.
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Candles light a sidewalk memorial to Stephon Clark, in Sacramento, Calif., March 23, 2018.
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Sequita Thompson recounts the horror of seeing her grandson Stephon Clark dead in her backyard after he was shot by police, in Sacramento. Calif., on March 20, 2016.
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Anita Ross holds a photo of shooting victim Stephon Alonzo Clark as she and other protestors block the entrance to Sacramento City Hall in Sacramento, Calif., onMarch 22, 2018. Clark’s grandmother called Monday, March 26, 2018, for changes in the way police confront suspects, such as sending in a police dog, using a Taser, or aiming for an arm or leg when shots are fired.
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Mar 19, 2018 – Sacramento, California, U.S. – Sequitta Thompson, grandmother of Stephan Clark, is surrounded by family as they pray in the parking lot of the Meadowview Light Rail Station, in Sacramento, Calif., on March 19, 2018. Clark was killed by police the night of March 18, in the backyard of his grandmothers home.
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Lashunda Britt, a cousin of Stephon Clark said he was probably knocking on the window through the bars to alert his grandfather who suffered from a stroke to use his remote to open the garage door when he was fatally shot by police in Sacramento, Calif., on March 20, 2018. To the right on the patio is where her cousin died. Known as both Stephon Clark and Stephan Clark.
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Pictures showing Stephon Clark and his wife Salena Manni, and sons Aiden Clark, 3, and Cairo Clark, 1, rested on a table inside his grandmother Sequita Thompson’s home in Sacramento, Calif., on March 20, 2018.
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Stephon Clark, 22, is visible on the ground after two police officers (L) shot him, in this still image captured from police aerial video footage released by Sacramento Police Department, Calif., on March 21, 2018.
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This March 18, 2018 photo, courtesy of the family, shows Stephon Clark at 5:20 p.m. in the afternoon before he died in a hail of police gunfire in the backyard of his grandmother Sequita Thompson’s home in Sacramento, Calif. On Monday, March 26, Thompson called for changes in the way police confront suspects, such as sending in a police dog, using a Taser, or aiming for an arm or leg when shots are fired.
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