Article 5Y7AF ‘That was my beloved son’: family of Patrick Lyoya say police killed their son in an ‘execution’

‘That was my beloved son’: family of Patrick Lyoya say police killed their son in an ‘execution’

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Nina Lakhani and agencies
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The family's lawyer says Grand Rapid police officer broke protocol by using the Taser too close to Lyoya

The grief-stricken parents of the Black man shot in the back of the head by a white Michigan police officer have described their son's death as an execution".

Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Congolese refugee, was killed after a traffic stop in Grand Rapids on 4 April.

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