Congolese immigrant Patrick Lyoya, 26, was shot and killed on April 4 during a confrontation with a white policeman following an 8 a.m. traffic stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The incident was captured on video by at least four cameras—the dashboard camera of the squad car, the officer’s bodycam, the cellphone of a passenger in the car, and the surveillance camera of a nearby home.
Made public on April 13, the footage outraged Lyoya’s family—which is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo—and provoked several small, peaceful demonstrations in the downtown area.
Within hours of viewing the videos, the family retained nationally known civil rights attorney Ben Crump and a team of lawyers, who held a press conference with the family on April 14.
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