No charges, no charges filed for the cop who killed Lequan Johnson. We have the update, here it is. Oh I'm so angry! [00:00:46] Daquan Johnson was riding his bike when officers received a report of a man on the bike with a gun. They proceeded to deploy a K9 on him, then shoot him three times in the back while [00:01:04] he was handcuffed. put out the prosecutor. Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker announced yesterday that the officer who fatally shot Daquan Johnson will not face charges. He said quote, I cannot [00:01:23] show that the decision of officer Christopher Carlson for the Grand Rapids Police Department to use deadly force that night was not honest and reasonable. Putting it another way in terms of when a self-defense in terms of when a self defense claim or defense of others claim is [00:01:42] raised. I have to prove that beyond a reasonable doubt that they did not act in self defense. And based on the facts and circumstances, as I see them, I just cannot simply do that. Now that's a whole lot of words from the prosecutors whose job is to exact justice. His job is to [00:02:03] do justice. He's not telling you that the cop is innocent. That's not what he said. He's not telling you that the cop did not commit murder. That's not what he said. A prosecutor [00:02:20] is telling you, it's going to be very difficult based on the evidence, etc. It's going to be very difficult for me to prove this case. But you're there according to your oath, Mr. DA, to do justice. If you believe he was innocent, you will say that. If you believe he committed [00:02:38] no crime, You will say that this is the second time that cop has been cleared of charges following a fatal officer involved shooting. He was one of three officers that shot and killed Henry Wyver in November 2024. And Wyver would not respond to commands by GRPD officers [00:02:59] to drop a gun. That gun later turned out to be a lighter that strongly resembled a handgun. Becker said the lighter strongly resembling a handgun was one of the reasons he opted not to file any charges against the three officers, including Officer Carlson involved in that [00:03:16] particular shooting. GRPD believes that the incident involving Wyver was suicide by cop after retrieving a last will and testament of Wyver following his death. Becker said that Wyver was released from the hospital that same day he was shot. Officers found a note written in crayon on Wyver saying in part GRPD, thank you for caring, end quote. Officer Carson was [00:03:36] placed on administrative leave after both shootings per the PD policy. Quote, I in my bones don't believe that my son had a gun in his hands. And he was pointing at the officer said the quads father Leon Johnson, his mother Angelica Johnson said quote, he stepped on the quads [00:03:56] right arm way before the shots were fired. You're standing on his arm, you're yelling after you stood. on his arm, done, done. And I want to remind everyone that we've had officers [00:04:12] tell us on this show. that they will yell, gun, gun. out of instinct and training. Because they know if they say they believed the gun was present, that clears them of all wrongdoing [00:04:34] because the US Supreme Court has upheld that it is the subjective belief of the cop and not the objective standard of what's actually happening or what a reasonable person would believe is happening. All right, Jamie, thoughts here. ah He's probably gonna be safe just as [00:04:57] long as he doesn't write a rap song about this. Even if they found that first incident to not reach the level of a criminal charge to be filed, that doesn't mean he gets to go back on the beat. If you're involved in a questionable shooting where there was a question of whether [00:05:17] or the shooting was justified where the person did not actually have a gun, he had a- cigarette lighter, it looked like a gun, which I want somebody to show me a cigarette lighter that can fool you into thinking it's a gun. But we've heard this story before, we've had black kids get shot for holding chocolate bars, saying that that looks like a gun, or nothing at all, [00:05:35] that thin air looked like a gun. So we've heard this time and time before, but even if the prosecutor decided not to press charges for that first incident, don't put him back on the peak. Cuz clearly this person does not have adequate training if he's killing people who are unarmed. That's a violation of what they're supposed to do as police officers protecting [00:05:52] certain public. How you protecting certain public when you're shooting people dead or unarmed? So move them to a desk job at that point in time. Even if you don't want to charge them with a crime, even if you think it's too, well, we would, but it's difficult to charge people with crimes. I would rather not do that because we might have to present evidence and all that [00:06:12] sounds real boring. You were in the wrong line of work, sir. ah Because if he was a black. you probably jump on them like white on rights to charge and prosecute. You do that with an eagerness, I have no doubt. So it's time for at a bare minimum, we hold these offices of [00:06:30] consequence. And I said this before, and I'll say it again, sue them. Just because a prosecutor chooses not to uh pursue criminal charges does not preclude the family from suing people. So I think the only cure to this institutional racism is financial burden. So that when cities [00:06:47] start to unduly burdened with the financial burden of having to pay out lawsuits time and time again. We will see less and less of this, I have no doubt.