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Posted on 07/23/2024 6:03:05 AM PDT by Salman
July 22 (Reuters) - The Illinois State Police released video on Monday of a sheriff's deputy killing a woman in her home this month, revealing details of a shooting that some likened to high-profile cases in which law enforcement has used excessive force on Black Americans.
Sean Grayson, a white deputy who was dismissed from the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office and charged with three counts of first-degree murder last week, fired three shots at the woman, Sonya Massey, according to the indictment. He also faces a charge of aggravated battery and one of official misconduct.
"Sonya’s death at the hands of a police officer reminds us that all too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do not," President Joe Biden said in a statement on Monday.
"I commend the actions taken by the Springfield State’s Attorney’s office. While we wait for the case to be prosecuted, let us pray to comfort the grieving," he said, calling on lawmakers to pass a stalled police reform bill named after George Floyd, who was choked to death by a white officer in 2020.
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The dude acts like he wants to shoot somebody that day. He should have turned and left, she was not acting threatening, and was so far away the water could not have hit him any way. I hope he gets convicted.
This was not a racial thing, although many people would like it to be. It was a filthy, out of control cop who murdered an innocent woman. Race had nothing to do with it.
I’m sure that had the woman been white, she would have been just as dead today.
(And yes. I watched the video.)
I used to tell my clients not to call the cops unless they want someone arrested or shot. Cops are too on edge these days, they aren’t helpful, they are a mess.
“...George Floyd, who was choked to death by a white officer in 2020.”
Total BS.
St George of Fentanyl/Meth/THC got what he deserved.
As soon as I saw that the article capitalized “Black” and lower cased “white”, I quit reading this racially divisive-minded crap.
” President Joe Biden said in a statement on Monday “
He said no such thing. It was noise generated by some propagandist using his name. Biden himself is probably in a corner mumbling.
“.. too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do not”
BS...tell it to the family of the white Little Rock airport manager...and countless other whites.
These Pravda evil scumbags in the so called “media” are stoking the flames for another chaotic “summer of love”. Gosh, I despise these people.
Now on to the cop-—WTF? Why the hell did he shoot her? I’d consider this murder....taking off a boiling pot of water? Probably criminal hires from the left-—
If I had a Time Machine I would go back 20 years and copyright the term “sparks outrage.” I would have retired to Bora Bora years ago.
Funny that when BLACK Somali Minnesotan policeman Mo Noor dusted WHITE Australian American, Justine Damond, it didn’t “spark” any “outrage”. Double standards again. If a Somali fleabag refugee shot my wife, he’d end up wishing real bad that he hadn’t. Fleabag “refugees” don’t impress me none. Even if they are an affirmative action Minnesota “policeman”.
> Now on to the cop-—WTF? Why the hell did he shoot her? <
The cop’s actions are unbelievable. The woman was not advancing on the cops. To the contrary. The shooter cop had to walk around a counter to shoot her. Could that cop have been on some kind of drug? Anabolic steroids maybe?
Well, they did not have a dog to shoot. And they had to shoot something.
They are gearing g up for president Trump term where there will be countless riots, murders, attacks, destruction etc
Haven’t seen any riots during obidens term (maybe there were, but the media kept them hush if there were)
I read the Daily Mail version which is very detailed. Horrific is all i can say.
Weird how all the “Black” Africans are bustin’ their asses and risking their lives trying to sneak into the evil, white supremacist, capitalist America. These two dizzy broads of low I.Q. need to put a sock in it. They can go home to Purple People Africa at any time.
I see that you use the present term. And I believe that he is.
“I used to tell my clients not to call the cops unless they want someone arrested or shot.”
Sound advice, shot being the most important consideration.
Agreed.
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