Patrick Lyoya was fatally shot by a police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan this month.
Patrick Lyoya was fatally shot by a police officer, shortly after grappling over a taser
Mr Lyoya's family, Congolese refugees, addressed media on Thursday and called for the officer's name to be released.Footage of the 4 April incident in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a town some 150 miles west of Detroit, shows Mr Lyoya running from the officer following a traffic stop. Dozens of demonstrators gathered on Wednesday outside the Grand Rapids Police Department demanding the name of the police officer involved be made public.
"What you see in that video is unnecessary, unjustifiable excessive use of fatal force. You see a police officer escalate a minor traffic stop into a deadly execution," he said.On Wednesday, the GRPD released footage of the incident from a police body camera, a police unit's dashcam, a mobile phone and a home surveillance system.