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“I want to do whatever helps,” Steinberg told me in his City Hall office on February 20. The mayor’s message will echo his annual State of the City speech on February 19. Speaking about a mile from the Meadowview backyard where Clark was shot dead, Steinberg said that it shouldn’t have happened, that he knows there will be “real anger” if the officers are not charged and that he wants to make it right. He called for peaceful protest, but he also declared, “Nonviolence does not mean inaction.” He pointed to reforms already Mayor Darrell Steinberg is underway in the Police Department and he preparing for the decision proposed that an “economic equity” fund in the Stephon Clark case. for neighborhoods get $200 million over the next five years from the Measure U sales tax approved by voters in November. Any day now, Sacramento County District Will those steps be enough to stop a Attorney Anne Marie Schubert will make the violent reaction? official announcement—and it’s very likely “I don’t know. I don’t know,” Steinberg that the two police officers who killed Stephon replied. “I can’t predict, but I have great faith Clark will not face any criminal charges. in the community. And I have great faith in As soon as possible after the DA speaks, the community leadership.” Mayor Darrell Steinberg, Police Chief Daniel “There is a uniform desire I think to Hahn and City Council members keep the peace, so long as there is a need to make their own commitment to justice,” he added. announcements: The protests have already “There is a That the officers will started, even before eventually be fired. Schubert’s announcement. uniform desire That the city will back On February 12, demonI think to keep the efforts to change state strators marched behind law, which now gives a banner that read, “WE peace, so long as there officers wide discreALREADY KNOW. WE is a commitment to tion to use deadly WON’T WAIT.” There force. That the Police will be more marches justice.” Department will enact timed around the one-year the recommendations of Darrell Steinberg anniversary of Clark’s death Attorney General Xavier Sacramento mayor on March 18. Becerra on use of force, While the initial demonstraofficer training and more. And tions last year were not as violent that the council will seek to change as some in other cities, “I don’t think we the City Charter to give the Community Police can take peace for granted, either,” Steinberg Review Commission more power to oversee said. “People need to feel we are serious about the department. changing what needs to be changed.” Community leaders should be standing next This is one of those times when a city to Steinberg and Hahn in a show of solidarity. defines and reveals itself. Sacramento has the Ideally, so will Clark’s family. chance to somehow find healing and progress At this point, it appears that some, but not out of tragedy. all, of that will happen. Will elected officials, community leaders, Steinberg plans to hold a public event the protest organizers—all of us—rise to the same day as the announcement, and has been moment? Ω talking to community leaders about the details.