Lyoya was shot in the back of the head by a white officer while face-down on a patch of grass on April 4 during a struggle over the cop’s Taser.
want the cop to be fired and prosecuted, insisting Patrick Lyoya was killed “like an animal” during a traffic stop.
One clip showed Lyoya exiting the car, ignoring the officer’s commands, and trying to flee. He then tried to grab the cop’s stun gun during a struggle that lasted about 90 seconds before he was shot after the officer ordered him to “drop the Taser,” footage shows. “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,” Crump told reporters Thursday. “Equal justice requires it.”