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April 15, 2022

Family Demands Criminal Charges for Grand Rapids Officer Who Killed Patrick Lyoya
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In Michigan, the family of Patrick Lyoya is demanding that the white
Grand Rapids police officer who killed the 26-year-old Congolese refugee
be fired and charged with a crime. City officials have yet to name the
officer, who is seen in video pulling his service pistol from a holster
and firing a fatal shot into Lyoya's head after a struggle. Patrick's
father, Peter Lyoya, said through an interpreter that he and his family
had escaped war and persecution in the Democratic Republic of Congo only
to see Patrick killed "like an animal" by a Michigan police officer.

Peter Lyoya: "My heart is really deeply broken. I didn't know, I didn't
believe that in this country that there is a genocide in this country. I
didn't know. I didn't know that here in America there can be an
execution style to kill someone."



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