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Michigan police release footage of white cop fatally shooting black man in the head during struggle over taser after traffic stop: Man's family retain Benjamin Crump who says 'excessive force was used'
Daily Mail ^ | 14 April 2022 | ANDREA CAVALLIER

Posted on 04/14/2022 7:20:11 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Michigan police have released footage of a black man being shot in the back of the head by a white cop during a struggle over the officer's Taser following a traffic stop, prompting calls for justice as the family's high-profile attorney claimed 'unnecessary, excessive used of force was used.'

Amid public outcry for transparency, police released the footage on Wednesday showing Patrick Lyoya, 26, facedown on the ground as he is fatally shot by the officer in Grand Rapids on April 4.

The newly released footage also shows the moments leading up to the shooting, including the traffic stop over suspicions involving Lyoya's license plate, which led to a brief foot chase and struggle over the cop's Taser.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; andreacavallier; benjamincrump; blackkk; ericwinstrom; goodriddance; grandrapids; lookwhohatescops; michigan; patricklyoya; riots; shakedown
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To: faucetman
I said Cops error was not waiting for backup, not sure what was possible in that instance.

Emphasis mine. You educated me in my ignorance. My statement was not meant to remove culpability from the perp.

61 posted on 04/14/2022 10:34:23 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: artichokegrower

Crump. Destroyer of cities.


62 posted on 04/14/2022 10:52:37 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: artichokegrower

Some retired cop should take Crump and Sharptongue out in like manner. Do the entire country a service.


63 posted on 04/14/2022 12:29:16 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: brownsfan

What would you do? I know, ask him for a timeout. Stand up and ask nicely?


64 posted on 04/14/2022 12:30:44 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: Leaning Right

You hear the officer repeatedly yell during the struggle, “Let go of the taser!”.

If he had beef tasted, the perp could have grabbed his pistol and the office would presumably be dead today.


65 posted on 04/14/2022 12:58:57 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
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To: janetjanet998

If he obeys commands he alive and out of jail already. If he gets the taser and deploys it against the officer he is at the suspects mercy who can take his sidearm and execute the officer or use it to commit other crimes. This has nothing to do with race only the utter stupidity and street thug attitude of the suspect and it cost him his life.

This was a righteous shoot.


66 posted on 04/14/2022 1:01:35 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: frogjerk

So does the officer wait for back up on every single call? In small departments and especially rural sheriffs departments backup maybe twenty minutes or more away. The officer made contact, saw that the suspect was not going to cooperate and asks for back up at some point and the suspect decides to run. Is he supposed to just trot along next to the guy until other officers arrive? Let him just walk off and do nothing?

Recently an officer in our small town department had a situation where he was taking a statement in a domestic event in an apartment complex and suddenly in the same complex there was a call of a massive fight in progress two units up. He got the ladies from the domestic out of his car and responded. There were 15-20 people in huge brawl and he called for back up, there was none(there actually was one, an officer in the same complex taking statements from someone else in the domestic-he’s a known coward and refused to acknowledge the call).

It was a busy night and there was no back up available was the reply from dispatch. So what was his options? Wait and watch them beat each other to death or start calling ambulances who wouldn’t enter the scene until it was secured. He got out and went Captain Hadley and found the nearest bunch to him and started knocking them to the ground with body blows or pushes. He went through six of these until he found the main instigators a 17 year old and an older guy. The 17 year old went to his house when ordered at taser point. The older guy who was 350 lbs kept on running his mouth and the officer at taser point started pushing him back into his apartment with one hand. Then he yelled loudly if he had to come back out there by the Eternal he would take all of them to jail. The fight ended and no one went to jail or the hospital.


67 posted on 04/14/2022 1:20:19 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: brownsfan

Yeah! you and #7 can rationalize this anyway you want. the cop was justified and the pert got what he should have known was coming.

He was not face down on the ground. It was in the middle of the struggle with a gun to his back.


68 posted on 04/14/2022 3:07:08 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW)
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To: artichokegrower

‘excessive force was used’

“Excessive” force HAD TO BE USED!!!!


69 posted on 04/16/2022 10:29:03 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: PhineasSpear

Great. The media now has a new George Floyd / Michael brown / Freddie Grey to sink their teeth into, and PROPAGANDIZE TO THE HILT, to make black criminals with LONG rap sheets look like Saints, and Whites look evil!!!!( while deliberately ignoring all,or dismissing, cases of vice versa )


70 posted on 04/16/2022 10:34:08 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: PhineasSpear

Ah ,and how could I forget, stoke anger and riots, if the policeman is rightfully found Not Guilty.


71 posted on 04/16/2022 10:35:43 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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