As prosecutor reviews another police shooting, history shows officers rarely charged

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker is no stranger to reviewing police shootings.

A veteran prosecutor, Becker has ruled on more than a dozen related shootings since 2020, including five cases over the last two years.

Becker filed charges only twice against a Grand Rapids police officer in the last six years, though the circumstances and charges differed greatly…

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