Patrick Lyoya's death in Michigan again puts the focus on encounters between police and Black people that begin over minor infractions but turn deadly.
The video seems clear: Patrick Lyoya disobeyed an officer during a traffic stop, tried to run, then wrestled with the officer over his Taser before the officer fatally shot him in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
A store employee called police, saying Floyd allegedly tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill. Police stopped Garner on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes. An officer confronted Brown and a companion as they walked to Brown's home from a convenience store. Brown was shot after scuffling with the officer. All three men were unarmed.
In Lyoya's case, some — including his family and their high-profile attorney, Ben Crump — have said the 26-year-old Congolese refugee was slain for having a license plate that did not belong to the vehicle. While that's why the officer stopped Lyoya, Johnson said, that's not why Lyoya was killed. "Looking at police culture, there is just this pushback on the notion that policing is rooted in white supremacy and has been a tool of white supremacy," Roberts said."And so there is a kind of denial of why Black people would have that fear. You've already criminalized the person when you're making a pre-textual stop. Your assumption is going to be that this is only a confirmation of their guilt, that fear.
"Cultural narratives may lead white officers as well as Black officers to anticipate trouble when the person they are stopping is Black," he said. National News Video shows Patrick Lyoya shot in head by Michigan officer Amara Enyia, policy and research manager for the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of more than 150 Black-led organizations, said the fear that Black motorists feel is rooted in generations of adversarial relations with police.
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