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“We stand in solidarity with our clients and those marching in Lansing, demanding justice for the victims of police brutality and excessive force,” attorneys Ven Johnson and Ben Crump said in a statement Thursday.

Family and community members and civil rights advocates gathered in Lansing on Friday to call for changes in policing in Michigan.

Family and community members and civil rights attorneys came together in Lansing on Friday to call for policing changes in Michigan.

Civil rights attorneys Ven Johnson and Ben Crump will help lead a march against police brutality at the Michigan Capitol on Friday.

A former state police sergeant was arraigned Wednesday, June 5, on a second-degree murder charge in a crash that killed fleeing suspect Samuel Sterling.

A Michigan State Police trooper who drove his unmarked SUV into a 25-year-old Kentwood man that was fleeing from police has been charged with second-degree murder.

A prosecutor declined to file charges Tuesday against a police officer who struck and killed a western Michigan teenager while the boy was running from a stolen vehicle.

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.