Hundreds of protesters gathered in Grand Rapids on Wednesday night. Michigan of USAafter the publication of a video showing a white police officer killing a young African American.
One of the four videos released from the incident, which took place on April 4, shows a policeman lying on the back of 26-year-old Patrick Liogia and then shooting himapparently, in the head.
The videos that were made public were taken by the camera that the patrol car has, by the one that the police officer had on him and by a security camera that was placed by a neighbor.
These show Liogia getting out of his car, after being stopped by police for a check, and to ask “what did I do?” while the policeman persistently asks for his diploma and asks him to return to his vehicle.
Liogia, as reported by the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, seems to obey the orders of the police officer, but then closes the driver’s door and tries to leave the spot, resisting the police officers who were trying to handcuff him.
After a brief chase, Lioya and the policeman fall to the grass and appear to be fighting as the African-American tries to snatch the policeman’s teaser.
Dozens of people gathered yesterday in downtown Grand Rapids, a city in Michigan with about 200,000 inhabitants. Protesters held banners reading “Blacks’s lives count” and they shouted “no justice, no peace.”
«I consider it a tragedy“Said local police chief Eric Windstorm during a press conference yesterday in which the videos were released. “The loss of a human life, regardless of circumstances, is something sad and I know it will have consequences for our city,” he added.
THE police officer involved in the incident, whose name has not been disclosed, has been set to availabilitywhile the police of the state of Michigan are investigating the incident, Windstorm pointed out.
“Another black man has died at the hands of the police and the police officer in this video must be held accountable,” the National Association for the Promotion of Colors (NAACP) said in a statement.
Source: News Beast
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