Autopsy reports, medical records and a Michigan State Police investigative report, along with additional body camera footage, have not been provided to the family of Da’Quain Johnson after he was fatally shot by a Grand Rapids police officer last month, according to civil rights lawyers Ben Crump and Ven Johnson, who are representing his family.
Crump and Johnson, who also represented the family of Patrick Lyoya, who was shot and killed by Grand Rapids police in 2022, told reporters on Friday that they are investigating Johnson’s death and whether excessive force was used against him, as well as the validity of allegations made by the police that the officers, who have yet to be named, were justified in shooting him.
“It is one of the worst videos of a police killing I’ve ever seen in my life, just because he is face down,” Crump, who has also represented the families of a number of victims of police killings, including Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor, said. “You have him. Why shoot him three times, execution-style?”…