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April 2, 2018

Sacramento Police Car Injures Woman Protesting Stephon Clark Killing
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In Sacramento, California, a 61-year-old woman was struck by a police
vehicle Saturday as she joined protests against the police killing of
Stephon Clark, an unarmed African-American man who died after he was
shot by police officers 20 times in his grandmother's backyard last
month. Wanda Cleveland was treated at a local hospital for injuries to
her wrist and head after she was struck by a cruiser being driven by a
sheriff's deputy. The incident was filmed by legal observer Guy
Danilowitz of the National Lawyers Guild.

Guy Danilowitz: "I saw a vehicle essentially strike a protester who was
looking like she was trying to get out the way. And the vehicle, a
sheriff's deputy, was stopped, and accelerated forward violently, as the
video shows, and struck her. And I called 911 because of the force with
which she got struck. And then, the patrol vehicles, after striking
her-it was loud, everyone heard it-they just sped off."



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