“I’m surprised and astonished to see that it’s here that my son has been killed with a bullet,” his mother, Dorcas Lyoya, said through tears at a news conference Thursday.
“That was my beloved son,” she added.
The department released four videos Wednesday that showed the incident from various vantage points — including from the passenger riding with Lyoya and the officer’s body camera, which turned off as the men struggled and did not capture the shooting.Local authorities said they were troubled by the footage. City Manager Mark Washington called the video “painful to watch.” “I immediately asked, ‘What caused this to happen?’” he said.
A Justice Department spokeswoman said the FBI’s Detroit field office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan are aware of Lyoya’s death and in communication with state investigators and the prosecutor in Kent County, which includes Grand Rapids. The agency will continue reviewing the incident to determine whether an additional federal response is needed, she said.
“Based on what we see in that video, we believe that this officer should be terminated for engaging in unnecessary, excessive use of deadly force,” Crump said. “And his mother and father and their family are asking that the state attorney charge him to the full extent of the law for killing their son, for breaking their hearts, for making his young children orphans. Fatherless. Equal justice requires it.
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