In the USA, the family members of an African refugee has been murdered by a Michigan police officer at the time when the traffic stop demanded on Thursday that the authorities have dismissed the officer from the force as well as criminal file charges against him, a day the video was released related to the fatal shooting.
The 26-year-old named Patrick Lyoya, who is a Congolese refugee, Black, was shot to death in a Grand Rapids neighbourhood during a routine traffic stop after he struggled with the officer over a stun firearm. As per the sources, the officer has not been identified publicly.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, during a press conference, the parents of a 26-year-old mourned the loss of their first-born son, highlighting that they did not believe that this could happen in the United States of America.
The father of Peter Lyoya mentioned in the statement, “My heart is broken to see an officer being on top of my son and to shoot him in the back of his head, my heart is really broken. I’m asking for justice for Patrick.”
As per the statement from the governor’s office, the family escaped the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the USA in 2014.
Along with this, a prominent U.S. civil rights attorney who is representing the family named Ben Crump stated that the officer did not follow the basic training protocols as well as that the usage of fatal force was unnecessary as well as unjustifiable.
He said by observing the video footage, “Another senseless killing of a Black person in America by the very people who are supposed to protect them. You notice a police officer escalate a minor traffic stop into a deadly execution.”
Furthermore, Crump again called for the federal police reform, highlighting that the death of Lyoya is one in a growing list of police officials’ killings of racial minorities, such as that of George Floyd as well as Breonna Taylor, in situations that could have been de-escalated.
