drop the taser! mark, how do you assess the way the encounter unfolded, number one, and then the use of deadly force, number two? i think it s important to head off the normal pushback we normally get whenever we discuss these types of fatal encounters. this isn t just a bad tactical decision. it s the consequence of senseless misguided current day priorities in policing, which continue to place black and brown people in harm s way. these are totally avoidable, fatal police encounters that give credibility to the calls shifting away from this policing model to more of a public safety model where you prioritize the preservation of life and crime prevention and safety maintenance and promote positive
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getting pulled over followed by the first part of a struggle that ensues. i m stopping you do su a license? no. do you have a driver s license? do you speak english? yes. can i see your license? what do you want? the plate doesn t belong on this car. no, no, no. stop. stop. stop. put your hands behind stop! 1950. we got one running. stop! in the next part of this footage you ll see the individual here, lyoya, who does appear according to the selection that we have to reach or grab for this officer s taser. now, the grand rapids police chief says he believes that the taser was actually fired twice but didn t make contact with either person, with anyone. stop!
inevitable. these are avoidable situations. avoidable and tragic, but currently legal. do you think that because of the nature of the final interaction and the alleged displacement of the taser this could have been a legal shot? i think if you go with dirty hands, you can t clean them up. so i don t believe that if you enter into this interaction improperly without legal justification, without being reasonable, that at the end justifies all the means that you used. i just don t believe that. and i know that to be the case when you re talking about professional policing. the number one priority in professional policing is the preservation of human life. yeah. understood. i appreciate it. that s why we come to you on this. it s a brutal fact and i have shared this with viewers before that sometimes it is the information flow that brings certain stories to us. so it s how do you get the
after lyoya runs, the struggle ensues. the officers started asking him to stop resisting repeatedly. the officer pins him down and fatally shoots him apparently in the back of the head. as with much of this, the footage is disturbing. let go of the taser! i ain t burn no taser. i see that. let go of the taser! there are other matters involving this that are not known yet. the video can be hard to tee cipher and we have seen this before, so we mention it as we piece things together the officer has been played on paid leave. the police chief says they are be forthright and transparent.