Patrick Lyoya was “executed” by police, the 26-year-old Black man’s family and supporters have said, a day after authorities in the US state of Michigan released video footage showing an officer shoot Lyoya in the head as he was face down on the ground.Lyoya, whose family is originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was fatally shot on April 4 following a traffic stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, about 240km (150 miles) northwest of Detroit.Speaking during a news conference on Thursday, Lyoya’s father, Peter Lyoya, said he never imagined that his eldest son could be killed by a police officer in the United States. “When I saw the video, my heart was deeply broken,” he said through a translator.
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