Decision of the expected trial in the case of the Michigan police officer who killed a black man in 2022
Detroit – A prosecutor said he will announce Thursday if he should have a second trial for a Michigan police officer who pulled a black man at the back of the head After stopping tumultuous traffic.
Christopher Schurr's trial on an accusation of second degree murder ended on May 7 when the jury said it could not reach a unanimous verdict.
Kent’s county prosecutor, Chris Becker, planned a press conference at 11:30 a.m. HA in Grand Rapids, at 160 miles (260 kilometers) west of Detroit, to announce the next step.
Schurr, 34, who was a big rapid officer, said that he feared for his life and had shot Patrick Lyoya because the 26 -year -old Congolese immigrant had control of his taser.
Lyoya's death in April 2022 was the peak of a fierce struggle It lasted more than two minutes. Schurr stopped a car to have the bad license plate. Lyoya came out of the car, did not produce a driving license and started running.
Schurr was at the top of Lyoya on the ground when he pulled it in the back of the head. The whole confrontation was Saved on the video And played several times for the jury.
At trial, the defense experts said that the decision to use a murderous force was justified because the exhausted officer could have been seriously injured if Lyoya had used the Taser. The experts of the prosecutor, however, said that Schurr had other choices, in particular by simply leaving Lyoya to run.
We don't know why Lyoya was trying to flee. The files show that his driving license was revoked at the time and that there was an arrest warrant for him in a case of domestic violence, although Schurr did not know. An autopsy revealed that his blood alcohol level was three times above the legal driving limit.
