GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) -- The family of a man fatally shot by a police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, earlier this month is demanding that the officer be fired and prosecuted.
“It is an unjustifiable use of deadly force because police escalated a traffic stop into an execution,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Patrick Lyoya's family, said during a press conference Thursday.
Video of their son’s death on April 4 was recorded on an officer's body camera, dashcam video, security cameras and a bystander's cellphone. Police released the footage Wednesday amid community pressure. “We’ve been trying to bring reform for decades here. Some folks here have said, ‘a George Floyd will never happen in Grand Rapids. This would never happen in the city of Grand Rapids’. Now I always have to remind them it's not if this is gonna happen, it's just when it's going to happen. And today is our real day,” Jackson told ABC News.
Jackson says the NAACP is intrigued to see if changes will come with the police department's new chief, Eric Winstrom. The NAACP is joining with the family and Crump in calling for the officer to be fired, he says.
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