Police Brutality / Individual record
Antonio Clements
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Antonio Clements in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-08-03 in Oakland, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-226
- Incident date
- August 3, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Oakland, CA
- Agency
- Oakland Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 49
What happened
Antonio Clements was fatally shot by Oakland police on August 3, 2015, near Martin Luther King Jr. Way. Officers approached Clements during an investigation into a reported sexual assault. Police said Clements fired first and wounded an officer, prompting other officers to return fire and kill him. Oakland lists the encounter in its official disclosure of officer-involved shootings and related records. The report distinguishes the initial allegation involving Clements from the confirmed fact that police fatally shot him. The available published accounts did not establish an independent final criminal verdict or later civil disposition regarding the responding officers.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 697
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 558
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset