Sunday, NAACP President stood at the podium at Renaissance Church, near national civil rights attorney Ben Crump, looked over at city officials and said “We’re tired of talking. We’re tired of talking.”
He then asked for full transparency and release of the video of the shooting that killed Patrick Lyoya.
Wednesday, he saw the video and said he was devastated.
“Now we’re here today, a 26-year-old Black male a brother, a father, a son is dead and has lost his life, fleeing a country where he was trying to save his life,” said NAACP President Cle Jackson during a media briefing at their headquarters. ”So, as Martin Luther King said ‘Where do we go from here.”
At City Hall on Wednesday afternoon, Chief Eric Winstrom and City Manager Mark Washington held a press conference where they released the videos of the officer fatally shooting of Lyoya.
On April 4, Lyoya was pulled over near the intersection of Nelson and Griggs. He attempted to flee by bo
1 Jul 2021
The NAACP branch in Michigan’s second-largest city is criticizing President Joe Biden’s gun control plan, saying it is going to “encourage over-policing.”
Biden is “encouraging cities to use COVID relief funds allocated through the American Rescue Plan,” Fox 17 reported, to “hire additional law enforcement officials or pay overtime where the funds are directly focused on advancing community policing strategies.”
Biden’s plan “also suggests cities can use the money to invest in technology and equipment to allow law enforcement to more efficiently and effectively respond to the rise in gun violence resulting from the pandemic.”
The NAACP is claiming that will “encourage over-policing” and fund surveillance programs.