Since April 12, 2022, BOSSIP has been following the case towards former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr, who was charged with the second-degree homicide of Patrick Lyoya. Schurr initiated a visitors cease as a result of Lyoya’s automotive had a license plate that allegedly didn’t correspond to the car. When Lyoya tried to flee from Schurr, he was tackled and shot at the back of the top whereas mendacity face down on the bottom. Lyoya by no means attacked Schurr nor was he armed, there was no justification for deadly pressure, nevertheless, Lyoya is lifeless all the identical.

The discharge of the physique digicam footage from the killing solely additional incensed Lyoya’s household and the neighborhood at giant as a result of it’s tough to observe the video and see something aside from a homicide. Schurr was fired from the police division and subsequently charged with second-degree homicide.

It has been over three painful years since that day, and the Lyoya household has been affected person in permitting the system to work in a case that ought to be pretty straightforward to adjudicate, Nonetheless, that is Amerikkka.

In accordance with the Detroit Free Press, the end result of the prison trial was not what the household or neighborhood needed, as Choose Christina Mims declared a mistrial because the jury stood deadlocked after 20 hours of deliberation on whether or not or to not convict Schurr of Lyoya’s homicide.