Hundreds of demonstrators marched in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan towards the city’s police department headquarters for a peaceful protest, which followed Wednesday’s release of a stitched-together video that showed the interactions leading up to the moment when an officer fatally shot Patrick Lyoya in the head earlier this month.
At City Hall on 13 April, Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom and City Manager Mark Washington held a press conference where the footage from the fatal 4 April shooting of the Black man was released to the public, answering a plea that has been made by Lyoya’s family in the weeks since the 26-year-old’s death.
