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Police Chief Doesn't know why Audio turned off in Stephon Clark shooting

March 26, 2018

About seven minutes after Sacramento police fatally shot an unarmed black man in his grandmother's backyard last week, officers were instructed to mute their body cameras.

Stephon Clark, 22, was in the backyard March 18 when two police officers shot at him 20 times. Police said they thought he was holding a gun. But investigators say they did not find a weapon at the scene, only a cellphone near the man's body.

The Sacramento Police Department on Wednesday released two body camera videos, the 911 call, the helicopter footage and radio traffic from the shooting.

In both videos, an officer can be heard saying, "Hey, mute." Directly after, the video goes silent and officers talk among themselves.

Police Chief Doesn't know why Audio turned off in Stephon Clark shooting
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