Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel recently tried to rebuke Michigan Enjoyer’s James Dickson for an X post stating that she “wanted her own Derek Chauvin” in relation to the trial of Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr in the shooting of Patrick Lyoya. The trial ended in a mistrial Thursday, after jurors couldn’t reach a verdict.

Nessel claimed in her response on X that she had nothing to do with Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker’s indictment of Schurr, citing Becker’s Republican Party affiliation and chastising Dickson to “try reading even a single news article about the case.”

Well, I read the news, and Dickson is correct. Nessel badly wanted to prosecute Schurr and told anyone willing to listen. 

On April 20, 2022, two weeks after the shooting, and after local and national media descended on Grand Rapids in the hopes of inflaming a second Summer of Floyd, Nessel held a press conference begging for the case.