Patrick Lyoya
The shooting of Patrick Lyoya, reminds me of the case of Walter Lamar Scott, a 50-year old black man, who was shot fives times in the back by a local police officer, Michael Slager, in North Charleston, South Carolina, in April 2015, after he stopped Scott because of a broken tail light on his car.
In both these cases, the suspects ran away but posed no direct threat to the police officer. Patrick Lyoya grabbed the taser and it was alleged that Scott had also done the same. Another similarity is that both victims were carrying passengers in their cars. Michael Slager finished up being given a twenty year prison sentence for the killing of Walter Scott.
Why Patrick Lyoya decided to do a runner, isn't clear, but I'm sure he wouldn't have liked being tasered. Walter Scott, seemingly did a runner because he thought he was about to be arrested for non payment of child maintenance, as there was an arrest warrant out on him. These sort of shootings appear routine in gun happy America. The police stop you over a suspect car registration plate or a broken tail light, and the next thing the incident escalates into you being shot dead.
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