The Killing of Patrick Lyoya - what do you think of it?

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The Killing of Patrick Lyoya - what do you think of it?

On the morning of April 4, 2022, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was fatally shot in the back of the head during a scuffle with an officer of the Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD).

Killing of Patrick Lyoya - Wikipedia

 

[Red Gold]

I do not think it OK.

And I think that no Christian should think it OK.

 

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Now: What do Christians think about it?

 

[Valletta]

The Killing of Patrick Lyoya - what do you think of it?



Killing of Patrick Lyoya - Wikipedia

It was certainly justified. When you are struggling with a individual and your life is in danger, and it was when Lyoya grabbed the taser, you are completely justified in shooting. Contrast that with the shooting of Ashley Babbitt at the Capitol, where the officer's life was not in danger and he shot and killed an unarmed woman from a distance. That was not justified. It is unfortunate that Lyoya went for the officer's weapon.

 

[HTacianas]

The Killing of Patrick Lyoya - what do you think of it?



Killing of Patrick Lyoya - Wikipedia

I think it is an absolute tragedy that could have been avoided if Patrick Lyoya hadn't started a fight with a police officer.

 

[caecilius]

Babbitt was getting ready to climb into another area in the Capitol. She was told not to proceed. You can't validate one, and not the other. Lives were at stake Jan 6th as well.

 

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Babbitt was getting ready to climb into another area in the Capitol. She was told not to proceed. You can't validate one, and not the other. Lives were at stake Jan 6th as well.

So I see it as well!

 

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It was certainly justified. When you are struggling with a individual and your life is in danger

I think that the life of that still nameless murderer-policeman was not in danger.
And I think it was NOT justified that he killed Patrick Loyoya.

 

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Background:

Mr. Lyoya’s death was the latest in a series of incidents that have strained relations between residents and the Grand Rapids police. In 2017, officers searching for a middle-aged woman wanted for a stabbing instead handcuffed an 11-year-old girl at gunpoint while she was leaving a house. Those officers were not disciplined. Months prior, other Grand Rapids officers held five innocent teenagers at gunpoint. And in 2020, local outlets reported, an officer was suspended for two days after shooting a protester in the face with a gas canister.

Killing of Patrick Lyoya - Wikipedia

 

[HTacianas]

I think that the life of that still nameless murderer-policeman was not in danger.
And I think it was NOT justified that he killed Patrick Loyoya.

When the police in Germany stop someone can they just run away from them? The police just let them go?

 

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More:

The grief-stricken parents of the Black man shot in the back of the head by a white Michigan police officer have described their son’s death as an “execution”.


Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Congolese refugee, was killed after a traffic stop in Grand Rapids on 4 April.


“I didn’t believe that … there’s a genocide in this country,” said his father, Peter Lyoya, on Thursday through an interpreter. “I didn’t know that here in America, there can be execution-style … to be killed by the police officer.”


The Lyoya family came to the US fleeing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014. Patrick, a factory worker, was the eldest of six children and had two young daughters.


Video footage released by the Grand Rapids police chief on Wednesday shows a short foot chase on a residential street after Lyoya ran from the officer who stopped him for driving with a license plate that didn’t belong to the vehicle. They are shown briefly struggling over the officer’s Taser, before he apparently shoots Lyoya in the back of the head while kneeling on his back.

More: ‘That was my beloved son’: family of Patrick Lyoya say police killed their son in an ‘execution’

 

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So far only one voice says: "I do not think this ok!"
Do all else here think it ok, I wonder?

 

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Or maybe the killing of Patrick Lyoya was so "un-important" for most that they had not really heard or read about it?

 

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This topic seems to sink and sink and sink - without comment.

Are BLACK LIVES really so un-important for Christians?

A sad thing.

 

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Contrast that with the shooting of Ashley Babbitt at the Capitol, where the officer's life was not in danger and he shot and killed an unarmed woman from a distance. That was not justified.

Why this comparison?
Should we deduct from this that Trump suporters usually think that Black LIVES DO NOT MATTER?

 

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[Hank77]

If what I read that the videos show is accurate, the shooting was not justified.

Edit: The Patrick Lyoya was not justified.

 

[Valletta]

Babbitt was getting ready to climb into another area in the Capitol. She was told not to proceed. You can't validate one, and not the other. Lives were at stake Jan 6th as well.

Who are you saying told her not to proceed? There were not more lives at stake there than at any of the BLM protests. Once BLM protesters went beyond a barrier are you saying it would have been justified to just shoot someone from a distance?

 

[Valletta]

This topic seems to sink and sink and sink - without comment.

Are BLACK LIVES really so un-important for Christians?

A sad thing.

Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization prone to violence.

 

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Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization prone to violence.

Whatver it is, when I say "Black Lives Matter" I mean just that: that black lives do matter.