A Sacramento City Council meeting was called early this week to discuss the fatal shooting of Stephon Clark, the Sioux City Journal reports. Several residents and protesters were in attendance to express their outrage and demand justice for Stephon. 

At one particularly impassioned moment during the meeting, Stephon Clark's brother, Stevante Clark, stormed into the meeting chanting Stephon's name, prompting others to join him. He hopped onto a desk in front of Mayor Darrell Steinberg and could be seen directly confronting him, the Associated Press reports. 

"The mayor and the city of Sacramento has failed all of you," exclaimed Stevante as he cited issues such as expensive rent, gang violence and poverty within the city.

"Now the mayor wants to talk to me," Stevante screamed. "The chief of police [Daniel Hahn] got my brother killed. He doesn't care. He shows no emotion at all. And y'all get mad at me for not crying on the news."

"The mayor and the city of Sacramento has failed all of you." 

The Sacramento City Council recessed after Stevante Clark, brother of #StephonClark, delivered an emotional speech criticizing the city's treatment of minority residents.

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Mayor Steinberg adjourned the meeting 2.5 hours early arguing that he could no longer ensure the attendees' safety due to the emotional outbursts.

This week, Stevante appeared on CNN urging supporters to go past "sorrys," and make real substantial change such as building community centers, outreach programs and taking care of "our own" security.

At a Monday news conference, Stephon's grandmother Sequita Thompson gave an impassioned speech through tears, CNN reports. 

"They didn't have to kill him like that. They didn't have to shoot him that many times," Thompson shouted as she sobbed.

"Why didn't you just shoot him in the arm, shoot him in the leg, send the dogs, send a Taser? Why? Why? Y'all didn't have to do that," she continued.

Curtis Gordon, Stephon's uncle, comforted Thompson as he stood at her side during Monday's news conference. “You don’t know what it’s like until you experience it,” Gordon told the Associated Press. “You can see it on TV, it’s totally okay to deal with those realities when it’s just through a television and they’re not in your home. It’s different now.”

"I want justice for my baby. I want justice for Stephon Clark. Please, give us justice," Thompson said.

"We will stand up for Stephon, we will speak for Stephon, we will fight for Stephon, until we get justice for Stephon," noted the Clark family's attorney, Benjamin Crump.

Although no new details have been released about the fatal shooting, the California Department of Justice recently joined the ongoing investigation. 

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