Vikings' Otis Grigsby Posts YouTube Video: 'Illinois State Police Murdered My Uncle'

Last week a Stateville correctional officer named Lernard Grigsby was shot by an Illinois State Police officer. On Monday he was pronounced dead at Provena St. Joseph Medical Center. His nephew, Minnesota Vikings defensive end Otis Grigsby, considers his uncle's death a murder, and he looks straight into the camera and explains in this video:

According to the Chicago Tribune, police responded to a domestic disturbance call in an employee dormitory at Stateville Correctional Center at about 4 a.m. on Thursday. Police said that when they found the woman who made the call, Lernard Grigsby attacked them. A sergeant shot Grigsby in the abdomen.

Otis Grigsby calls that article "amazingly flawed and ridiculous, and it shows that basically, these people don't earn their paychecks, because if they did, they would have actually asked questions, besides reading a bogus police report."

Says Otis of his uncle, "He defended himself like any person would. No person is going to sit there and take a beating." And for nine minutes, he talks about his uncle's death in a video that raises many questions, provides few answers and won't be easy to forget.

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