BLACK LIVES SHOULD MATTER

Is Capturing a Black Man More Important Than Life Itself?

Responding to the fatal police shooting of Patrick Lyoya

Allison Wiltz
Published in
4 min readApr 15, 2022

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Photo by Max Fleischmann on Unsplash

What began as a routine traffic stop ended in tragedy. On April 4th, a Grand Rapids police officer shot Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Black man, “in the back of his head.” Since then, numerous White people…

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Allison Wiltz
Momentum

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