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# Police Shot Stephon Clark 6 Times From Behind, Pathologist Says

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## Video: Police Shot Stephon Clark 6 Times From Behind, Pathologist Says

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_Published 2018-03-30. A pathologist hired by attorneys for the family of an unarmed man killed by Sacramento police says an independent autopsy shows Stephon Clark was shot seven times from behind and took up to 10 minutes to die_


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## Transcript

There were a total of eight gun shot wounds. A total of eight gun shot wounds. Meaning that he was hit by eight bullets. Six of the bullets like you could see in the body diagram Exhibit the gunshot wounds of entrance in the back. Meaning he was shot in the back six times. And each one of these bullets independently. Possessed a fatal capacity. Meaning, that out of all the seven, all he needed to have died was just one of the seven. The proposition that has been presented that he was assailing The officers, many of you was facing the officers is inconsistent with the prevailing forensic evidence as documented at autopsy.

Give the totality Of the configurations of the trauma noted at his second autopsy. Death was not instantaneous, death mechanism by exsanguination and an acute respiratory arrest Would cause hypoxic, chemistry of the brain. It takes the brain about three to five minutes, or three to ten minutes to suffer irreversible damage. So death took about three to ten minutes. It was not an instantaneous death.

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