Video shows officer fatally shooting Patrick Lyoya in Michigan
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On the morning of April 4, a police officer noticed a car with an improper license plate traveling through a tree-lined residential neighborhood in Grand Rapids, Mich.
It was rainy and just after 8 a.m. After the officer pulled over the sedan, its driver — Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Black man — stepped out, according to video footage of the incident.
“Stay in the car!” the officer said, adding: “Dude, I’m stopping you.”
Lyoya replied, looking confused, asked why.
The officer asked for Lyoya’s driver’s license, and after briefly speaking to the passenger in his car, Lyoya closed the door, turned his back to the officer and took a few steps away.
That is when the police officer, whom authorities have not named, grabbed Lyoya, kicking off a roughly 2 ½ minute struggle
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