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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).
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.
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.
It was certainly justified. When you are struggling with a individual and your life is in danger
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?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.
Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization prone to violence.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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