‘Executed By Cop’ The Story Of Patrick Lyoya
A white Michigan cop fatally shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head while kneeling on top of him after pulling him over for allegedly having a problem with his license plate, video released Wednesday by the Grand Rapids police department (after demands from the public and Lyoya’s family) shows. Lyoya, a 26 year-old Black man, was unarmed. He had two young children. “I want people to see the way my son was killed. I want the entire world to see how my son was executed,” Peter Lyoya told MLive.
Lyoya came to the U.S. as a refugee in 2014, fleeing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “He is my firstborn,” Dorcas Lyoya, Patrick’s mother, said. Adding she had thought the U.S. would be safe. “I am really deeply hurt and wounded. I don’t know what to do, I cannot stop myself from cr...