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GRPD CHIEF WINSTROM BOWS TO blm DEMANDS--RELEASES OFFICER'S NAME IN LAYOYA INCIDENT
ReplyDeleteGRA:I assume he's not living ANYPLACE where the nigs can find him.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Grand Rapids Police Department has released the name of the officer who fatally shot 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya earlier this month.
“In the interest of transparency, to reduce on-going speculation, and to avoid any further confusion, I am confirming the name already publicly circulating — Christopher Schurr — as the officer involved in the April 4 Officer Involved Shooting,” GRPD Chief Eric Winstrom said in a Monday release.
(GRA:"Someone" had been circulating Schurr's name--supposedly.)
Schurr is on administrative leave, stripped of his police powers, until both the internal investigation from GRPD and the separate investigation from Michigan State Police are complete, Winstrom said.
In a statement, City Manager Mark Washington said Winstrom had given him a heads up he was releasing Schurr’s name. He said he “support(s) the decision and appreciates (Winstrom’s) leadership and commitment to transparency.”
Videos show what led up to GRPD officer shooting
The announcement comes after weeks of family, community members and civil rights activists — including Rev. Al Sharpton’s at Patrick Lyoya’s funeral last week — calling on GRPD to release the officer’s name. Winstrom previously said he would not release the name unless or until the officer was charged.
“Are you saying … that if he’s never charged, we’ll never know his name? Are you setting a legal precedent now that if a policeman kills somebody on video tape that he’s holding down and shoots in the back of the head, that if the grand jury don’t charge him, that we will never know his name?” Sharpton said at the funeral. “I come from New York to tell you that we’re not going to let that precedent stand.”
(GRA:If he isn't charged,technically,there's no need to release his name.He won't work in Grand Rapids again anyways--even if charges are not filed.)
Patrick Lyoya’s father, Peter Lyoya, said since learning of his son’s death he had two wishes: to see his son’s body and to learn the identity of the man who took his son’s life.
Peter Lyoya said he was not made aware that police were planning to release the name of the officer Monday. He said he’s now hoping federal investigators will get involved and charge the officer.
“What is left now and what I’m asking now is for the Department of Justice to take this case and bring justice for my son Patrick,” Peter Lyoya said via his interpreter. “I would never want another parent to go through what I’m going through, to see another kid be killed by an officer. So what I’m asking really is for this officer to be arrested, to be brought to justice and to serve some time in prison.”
(GRA:The father is a revenge seeking inciter.His kid did everything wrong in that traffic stop--#1:Getting out of the car.)
Sharpton wants feds to investigate Lyoya death
Kent County Commissioner Robert S. Womack stood alongside Peter Lyoya Monday afternoon. Womack has been making similar demands of Grand Rapids city commissioners. He also called on the commissioners to change GRPD policies.
“A young man’s life has been taken and we want to let them know that Patrick Lyoya’s life matters and we won’t stop until we get justice,” Womack said. “Justice to me is them all having their day in court.”
Womack added that he believes police withholding the name for the last three weeks was “unacceptable.”
Members of Black Activists United also called on police to release information about the shooting. The group has been a part of and helped organize protests in downtown Grand Rapids for the last three weeks.
--GRA