Thursday, June 09, 2022
Chris Schurr Charged with Murder for Policing While White, and Killing Would-be Cop-Killer Patrick Lyoya
[“Another White Cop Lynching Underway—But This Time Black “Victim” Patrick Lyoya Is A Congolese Refugee”; see also under “Patrick Lyoya.”]
By Nicholas Stix
(Thanks to longtime contributor, “W.” What follows sounds like a blm press release. I hope it’s not typical of the mainstream media.
Note that the Michigan state Police, who hid behind their “ongoing investigation,” have still refused to announce whether the car Lyoya was driving at the time of the stop, which bore false plates, was stolen. The MSP finished their investigation six weeks ago. Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker was buying time between April 28 and today.)
“After more than 26 million Americans took to the streets in May and June 2020, demanding justice following the deaths of several Black [sic] people at the hands of white officers, many politicians promised reform. However, actual changes have been few and far between, with a powerful pro-police movement emerging in conservative circles [that’s a lie].
“Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker announced on Thursday afternoon that second-degree murder charges were being filed against Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr after Shurr shot a Black [sic] motorist in the back of the head in a scuffle following a traffic stop in April.
“The death was not justified or excused ... by self defense,” Becker told reporters.
“Protests spread in mid-April after footage of the incident was publicly released. In the videos, Schurr, 31, pulls over Lyoya, 26, for a traffic stop after finding that his license plates are not registered for the car he's driving. Following an exchange, Lyoya attempts to flee the scene on foot and is chased by Shurr, who tackles him to the ground.
[N.S.: Note the title of the embedded “thing” on the case: “Michigan police release footage showing execution-style killing of Patrick Lyoya.”]
“In the scuffle that follows, Schurr gets his arms around Lyoya, who surrenders [N.S.: That’s another blood libel], but who continues to push Shurr’s taser gun away from him. Shurr then pulls out his service pistol and places it against the back of Lyoya’s head, ordering him to release the taser before shooting Lyoya with his pistol, killing him.
“Lyoya was a refugee from the violence in Congo's North Kivu region who reportedly spoke poor English. He struggled with substance abuse, and the autopsy found that at the time of his death, he had a significant amount of alcohol in his system.
“Following his death, Michigan lawmakers pledged to reform police procedures, but legislation to set standards for the use of deadly force by police, create a uniform system for investigating police shootings and limit police use of no-knock warrants and chokeholds has stalled since the 2020 murder [sic] of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police.
“Floyd’s death, just one of many by Black [sic] Americans at the hands of white police officers and vigilantes, set off nationwide protests that snowballed into the country’s largest conflagration since the Civil Rights era. The protests coalesced around a wide series of demands, including accountability for police who kill Americans [sic]; reducing funding, weaponry, and social prominence for police departments; and abolition of the police in their present form. The protests forced the beginnings of a nationwide reconciliation with the legacy of the country’s racist past [blood libel], which includes the enslavement of Black [sic] Americans, racial apartheid, and genocidal policies toward Native Americans. “Michigan Police Officer Charged With Murder for Execution-Style Shooting of Patrick Lyoya,” Sputnik News, June 9, 2022 (Updated: 22 minutes ago) 54 minutes ago).]
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As I tried to tell you people, it was always going to be difficult to justify shooting a prone man in the back of the head -- to explain why there was no alternative.
And he should never have engaged in a physical struggle with Lyoya (aka a piece of fucking disgusting black third world trash who never should have been in America in the first place).
While I did not look into the evidence/the investigation justifying the charge, of course 2nd degree murder is pretty heavy, but that's the political climate today -- I feel sorry for him and his family.
Actually I have some sympathy for any white cop in America today.
I stated my opinion,one story down--the prosecutor(Becker)blinked.
-GRA
EXPERT ON POLICE FORCE THINKS "VIDEO ALONE MAY NOT NECESSARILY LEAD TO A CONVICTION"(THINK TASER)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A national expert in police force who testified in the George Floyd wrongful death civil case said he was not surprised at the second-degree murder charge filed Thursday against a Grand Rapids police officer in the death of Patrick Lyoya.
It wasn’t, he said, just because of the video that showed Officer Christopher Schurr shooting Lyoya in the back of the head on April 4.
“In today’s world, we’re seeing a lot of officers being charged, where years ago they wouldn’t have been charged,” University of South Carolina criminology professor Geoffrey Alpert said. “It would have been a civil issue.
“It may be that prosecutors are now just looking at these events differently,” he said.
Alpert co-authored the book, “Evaluating Police Uses of Force.” His co-author, Professor Seth Stoughton, had watched the video of the Lyoya shooting for Target 8 when it was released in mid-April.
But Alpert said Stoughton, who testified in the George Floyd criminal case, was one of the experts consulted by the Kent County prosecutor in the Lyoya case.
Stoughton told Target 8 he couldn’t comment.
Stoughton previously told Target 8 that the Lyoya shooting should never have happened and that Schurr should have let him go, allowing police to catch up with him later. Stoughton questioned the officer’s training and why he pulled the Taser while so close to Lyoya.
“Deploying the Taser at close range is not a good idea, because the guy can grab it. That’s exactly why you don’t do that,” Stoughton said earlier.
Alpert said he also watched the video that shows the struggle and the moment that Schurr shot Lyoya.
“The video was troubling, and while we can’t tell what happened exactly and you certainly can’t rush to judgment, it certainly raises some issues that need to be explored,” Alpert said.
But, he said, the video alone may not be enough to convict the officer.
“It’s very difficult to determine when a civil wrong rises to the level of a crime, and that’s something that a jury has to decide, and it’s not an easy decision,” Alpert said. “Even if you understand that what an officer did was wrong, at what level was it wrong? And that’s a tough call.”
He said the condition of the Taser that Lyoya and the officer fought over could be the key.
“It said in the reports that the Taser had been shot twice, so it’s unlikely there’d be another cartridge,” he said.
In that case, he said, it likely could only have been used in what is called drive-stun mode through direct contact with the body.
“That’s really just a pain-compliance tool, and officers should be used to taking hits from Tasers” during training, he said.
“That certainly could be something that convinces a jury that he was in imminent fear of his life, or he wasn’t,” Alpert said.
GRA:Juries and prosecutors don't worry about such details--they just want to appease the blacks,thinking that strategy will prevent their cities from burning up.
--GRA
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