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Patrick Lyoya.

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Patrick Lyoya.

Our racial reckoning of 2020 hasn’t fixed the system that sparked it.

Abdul El-Sayed
Apr 19, 2022
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Patrick Lyoya.

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A person wears a sweater with an image of Patrick Lyoya as protesters march for Lyoya, a Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer, in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 16, 2022. (Photo by MUSTAFA HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

"We ran away from war in Congo … and I thought I came to a safe land.” 

Those are the words of the mother of Patrick…

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