Rally seeks justice for black man shot by police

The moves were the latest in a spy poisoning case that has escalated East-West tensions, with both sides expelling more than 150 of each other’s diplomats from two dozen countries.

Britain has insisted that the Russian government was behind the nerve agent poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter March 4 in the English city of Salisbury, a charge the Russians vehemently deny.

In St. Petersburg, workers at the U.S. consulate hurried to meet the Saturday deadline to close the consulate imposed by Russia just two days earlier.

CALIFORNIA

The family of Stephon Clark joined hundreds at a rally Saturday, urging California’s capital city not to let his memory or calls for police reform fade nearly two weeks after the 22year-old unarmed black man was killed by Sacramento officers.

Clark’s fiance, Salena Manni, stood on stage with his two young sons, grandmother and uncle for the gathering organized by Sacramento native and former NBA player Matt Barnes, who pledged to create a scholarship fund for the children of black men killed by police.

“It’s more than color — it comes down to right and wrong,” Barnes said, as he amplified calls for charges against the two officers who are on administrative leave. “You’re trying to tell me I can kill someone and get a paid vacation?”

Clark was killed March 18 by two police officers responding to a call of someone breaking into car windows. They yelled that he had a gun before shooting, but it was only a cellphone.