THE grandmother of an unarmed black man shot dead by police in Sacramento, California, last week has called for change in the way police confront suspects.

Sequita Thompson gave a press conference on Monday night and recounted the events of March 18, when Stephon Clark was shot 20 times in the back garden of her house, where he lived.

“They didn’t have to kill him like that, they didn’t have to shoot him that many times,” she said.