The ACLU of Michigan, Greater Grand Rapids NAACP, LINC UP and the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center in a statement said the officer’s name should be released and listed other demands. "So, why would you get down on the ground on top of him, and then pull your gun out and shoot him in the back of the head?" he said.
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Johnson said the officer had the license plate, the passenger and the vehicle, "everything he ever needed to apprehend this driver someday in the near future. he can see he doesn't have backup so for his own personal safety standpoint, he should not have continued to engage this man." But once there's a physical confrontation. "But he gets all excited because the guy gets out of the car, right? The fact of the matter is, you have an unarmed person, Black man, White cop, and there's no question that the police officer had every right to ask questions. "The license plate allegedly doesn't belong on his vehicle. In translation, he may be somewhat suspicious that there might be a stolen vehicle and that's giving him the benefit of the doubt," Johnson said. The family lives in Lansing Patrick Lyoya lived in Grand Rapids.ĭetroit Attorney Ven Johnson, who also is representing the Lyoya family, told The Detroit News Wednesday the video was "highly shocking and an absolute homicide." The Lyoya family emigrated from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014.
The Lyoya family declined to comment on Wednesday, through their family spokesman, and said they needed to speak with Crump and planned to hold a press conference Thursday. “We cannot talk about change without being the change we want to see,” Womack said Wednesday.Īttorney Ben Crump, who led George Floyd's family's legal team, traveled to Grand Rapids to represent the family.Īfter the video was released, Crump posted a statement on Twitter, writing "We DEMAND that the officer who killed Patrick not only be terminated for his excessive and fatal force, but be arrested and prosecuted for his violent, reckless, and unjustified killing of this Black man during a misdemeanor traffic stop!" Womack on Wednesday called for the officer's name to be released and said the incident was “was escalated by police.” He called on protesters to avoid violence.
Lyoya's family and Kent County Commissioner Robert Womack have described the shooting as an "execution."
However, Lyoya's family, a Kent County commissioner and the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan spent the last week calling for the release of video. Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker previously requested that police not release any evidence until the investigation is complete.
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