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As the family of 17-year-old Riley Doggett prepared for his funeral Friday, they renewed calls for police to release any video that shows him being struck by a Kent County sheriff’s cruiser.

Riley Doggett’s family is calling for transparency and for the dash and body camera footage to be released.

Doggett’s death certificate released this week lists the 17-year-old’s manner of death as an ‘accident’

Victims of the historic 2020 flooding in mid-Michigan after two dam failures gathered in Sanford on Friday, just two days before the 4-year anniversary of the incident.

Four years later, attorneys for the May 2020 flood victims are still fighting, and attorney Ven Johnson says there is momentum and a court date.

The family of a Black man who was killed after he was hit by an unmarked police car in Michigan spoke out on Saturday after body camera footage of the incident was released by investigators.

The mother of a man who was killed last month after a Michigan State Police vehicle struck him and pinned him to a brick wall said viewing video of the incident Friday left her “hurtful and sad.”

Police video shows an unmarked Michigan State Police SUV hit a man as he ran from officers in Kentwood last month, followed by Samuel Sterling crying out in pain and officers telling him to lie still and breathe while EMTs were on their way.

A teen who was hit by a Kent County sheriff’s deputy’s cruiser during a foot chase about a month ago has died.