A social equality bunch requested Tuesday that the Michigan head legal officer step in and examine the police shooting of Patrick Loya, advance notice the longstanding connection between the region examiner’s office and Grand Rapids police could prompt predisposition.

The leader of the Greater Grand Rapids NAACP said he requested that Chris Becker recuse himself yet that the Kent County examiner declined.

“A fair and fair-minded examination can’t happen,” Cle Jackson told correspondents. “Essentially there are such a large number of irreconcilable situations.”

Loya, a 26-year-old Black man, was shot in the rear of the head by a white Grand Rapids official, minutes after  April 4, the traffic stop transformed into a concise foot pursuit and actual battle, a lot of it recorded on the record. Official Christopher Schurr requested Lyoya to take his hands off his Taser before the shooting occurred. Loya was unarmed.

State police are investigating the shooting. Becker said he didn’t know Lyoya or Schurr, and that he wouldn’t hand the matter to another prosecutor.

“One of the things that makes this different is this is horrendous,” Jackson said. “We can debate all day whether or not it was justifiable or what have you. It is horrendous what this officer — a trained officer of the law — did to Patrick by shooting him in the back of the head like an animal.”

Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, said she won’t get involved unless Becker, a Republican, asks her. Both were elected to their jobs.