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Following the recent police-involved shooting death of young father Stephon Clark, his family has retained the legal services of nationally active civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
Clark, was fired upon in his grandmother’s backyard at least 20 times by two officers who suspected him of breaking into cars in the area. He was hit by eight bullets, the majority of which struck him in the back.
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