GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Calling Patrick Lyoya's shooting death "an execution" by a police officer, the Rev. Al Sharpton on Friday demanded a federal investigation into the fatal traffic stop.
Sharpton, who heads the National Action Network, delivered a half-hour eulogy at the funeral for Lyoya, the motorist killed April 4 by an unnamed Grand Rapids police officer.
"I’m not going to desecrate the local authorities, but I want to call on the federal Justice Department to investigate this," Sharpton said at the Renaissance Church of God in Christ in Grand Rapids.
