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I see my heart is broken. >> the moments leading up to his death were caught on camera and released by police in grand rapids. i want to warn you this video is disturbing but its important to see what happened here. now police say they stopped lyoya, a black man, over improper vehicle registration but a struggle ensued after lyoya got out of the car. you can see and hear the officer deploying that taser and then both of the men were on the ground, patrick lyoya, who was unarmed, was shot in the ...

Police say he was pulled over for improper registration on the car he was driving, though did not elaborate on why they were looking in the first place. just a few minutes into the stop, lyoya starts to run. >> no, no, no, stop, stop. put your hands up. >> reporter: the officer catches lyoya, the two begin to wrestle. then the officer uses a taser. but it fails to make impact. the officers body camera turns off during the struggle. police say it was unintentional. but the passenger in lyoyas car...

>> reporter: in grand rapids, there is frustration and anger over how a routine traffic stop... >> do you have a license? >> for what. >> reporter: ...escalated into a deadly police shooting, claiming the life of 26-year-old patrick lyoya. today, attorney ben crump, flanked by liyoyas parents, called for accountability. >> as his mother and father said, they believe their son wac confrontation.wednesdayvide the officer first approaching the car. >> no, no, no. stop. stop. put your hands... stop!...

That police and the kent county prosecutor have? >> im guessing no, but obviously i dont nknow what i dont have. i guess we have a long way to go to get to the bottom of all of it. >> weve heard from you, ben crump, members of lyoyas family. what is it youre asking for now after seeing this video? >> very clearly this is a violation of our clients civil rights. clearly this was excessive force. were asking the michigan state police to do their investigation. were asking them to seek a warrant fo...

The plate doesnt belong on this car. >> video shows the officer grab lyoya before he pulls away and starts to run. the officer tackles him to the ground where the two continue to struggle and we should warn you what youre going to see in this next clip is disturbing. the police chief confirmed lyoya was laying face down when he was shot in the back of the head. the officer involved in that shooting has not been named. joining me now is megan fitzgerald. im not sure we got to the heart of the sto...

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And tells him, his plates did not match. the plates that were on the vehicle did not belong there. then you can see there is a bit of a struggle. he looks like hes telling him to go to the front. hood. then we see a different vantage point, it looked like lyoya was starting to move away. and then the struggle at the back of the vehicle where it is stopped and they end up in a neighbors yard there sxir thank struggling. theyre out of view from part of it, from this camera video from inside the po...

Weve heard there was this idea that there was this big struggle. according to the police department. and now weve been able to see them. what i can tell you is that they released four separate vantage points of what transpired on april 4th, just after 8:00 in the morning local time. what you see from inside the vehicle, the fixed camera there. we were able to see the body camera video the officer was wearing and we were able to see home surveillance video from across the street caddie corner fro...

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