The prosecutor says a police officer in Michigan who killed a black driver

Detroit – A police officer in Michigan who fatally shot a black man in the back of the head after a turbulent traffic stop is not exposed to a second legal proceedings, said a prosecutor on Thursday, two weeks after the end of a trial without unanimous judgment.

The decision of the public prosecutor Chris Becker is certainly the civil rights activists and the family of Patrick Lyoya, the 26-year-old Congolese immigrant, whose death was recorded on video in the front garden of a Grand Rapids house and repeatedly played in court.

Becker said he doubted that a second jury would achieve a different result.

“This is a shared community,” he said.

A message that was looking for a comment by Christopher Schurr's lawyer was not returned immediately.

Schurr, who was a Grand Rapids officer, claimed the self-defense and said that he was feared for his life and shot Lyoya because the man had control over his Taser. He was charged with the second degree murder, although the jury was also able to consider lower charges for manslaughter.

Lyoya's death in April 2022 was the highlight of a violent struggle that lasted more than two minutes. Schurr stopped a car because he had the wrong license plate. Lyoya got out of the car, not introduced a driver's license and started running.

Schurr was on the floor on Lyoya when he shot him into the back of the head. The entire confrontation was recorded on video and repeatedly played for the jury.

In court hearings, defense experts said that the decision to turn fatal violence was justified because the exhausted officer had been seriously injured if Lyoya had used the Taser. However, the public prosecutors' experts said that Schurr had different decisions, including simply letting Lyoya run.

It is not known why Lyoya tried to flee. Records show that his driver's license was revoked at that time and that there was an arrest warrant for him in a case of domestic violence, although Schurr did not know. An autopsy showed that its blood alcohol level was three times above the legal limit for driving.