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Two years and two days after the death of Patrick Lyoya, protesters marched the streets of the Grand Rapids, occasionally blocking traffic as they demanded justice and accountability.
The Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy. Sharpton's National Action Network is covering burial and funeral costs for Lyoya.
The family of Patrick Lyoya are calling for the Grand Rapids officer who killed the Congolese refugee to be fired and arrested.
The Lyoya's are refugees who fled their homeland to escape violence in 2014. Patrick Lyoya's mom, Dorcas Lyoya, said she thought the U.S. would be safe.
"I am surprised and astonished that it's here that my son has been killed with bullets," Dorcas Lyoya said during a Thursday press conference.