The private pathologist who said Stephon Clark had been shot six times in the back by Sacramento police issued a full-throated defense Wednesday night, rejecting the Sacramento County coroner’s autopsy findings that he was wrong as “inaccurate.”
Dr. Bennet Omalu, a prominent pathologist hired by Clark’s legal team, released a black-and-white photo of Clark’s corpse with bullet wounds and said the county autopsy report that found only three bullet wounds in the back was wrong.
“Experts may have different opinions, but a picture is a picture,” Omalu wrote. “A picture does not have an opinion.”
Note to readers: The Sacramento Bee chose not to publish the photo of Stephon Clark’s corpse referenced in this story because we believe the photo’s news value does not outweigh the impact of the graphic image. If you’d like to view the image, it is linked to in this piece.
