Body camera footage captured the shooting and the woman’s desperate cries as she begged, ‘Please, God’

A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 for help.

Sean Grayson, 31, was convicted in October of second-degree murder. Grayson, who is white, received the maximum possible sentence and has been in police custody since being charged in the killing.

Massey’s family members, who were sitting in the court, celebrated his sentence with a loud cheer: “Yes!” The judge admonished them.

Grayson apologized during the sentencing, saying he wished he could bring Massey back and spare her family the pain he caused.

“I made a lot of mistakes that night. There were points when I should’ve acted, and I didn’t. I froze,” he said. “I made terrible decisions that night. I’m sorry.”

  • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
    92·
    18 hours ago

    The problem is fear. In general, we don’t teach cops how to deal with complex situations. We don’t teach them how to deescalate potentially dangerous situations. We don’t teach them how to peacefully resolve conflicts. All they are taught now is Killology (AKA Warrior Training).

    Grossman’s America is a terrifying place where police are both the primary targets of and defenders against superpredation. “Increasingly the police must face organized opponents armed with assault rifles and bombs,” Grossman says at the outset of the class, citing an “explosion in violent crime” and an “extraordinary rise in violence” in the streets of America.

    …

    Grossman maintains that America is now scarier than ever—and that cops may well be the ones with the most to fear. “We know that if it were not for all the body armor, bulletproof vests worn by officers, law enforcement fatalities in the United States would easily be double or even triple what they are today,” Grossman asserts. “If this is not war, then you tell me what is.”

    Cops out there now are terrified that they are constantly in the sights of one bad guy or another. They are in a state of constant terror that anyone might pull out a gun and murder them. People in that mindset cannot be trusted to be “peace” officers.

    • Gork@sopuli.xyz
      32·
      14 hours ago

      Grossman maintains that America is now scarier than ever—and that cops may well be the ones with the most to fear. “We know that if it were not for all the body armor, bulletproof vests worn by officers, law enforcement fatalities in the United States would easily be double or even triple what they are today,” Grossman asserts. “If this is not war, then you tell me what is.”

      This man has a financial interest in keeping officers as scared as possible so their Chief can book training courses with this guy.

      I wouldn’t take whatever he says as having any basis in reality.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          9·
          9 hours ago

          One of the fucking greatest things I’ve ever seen.

          Dude apparently thinks he has been shot, so of course, what makes sense to do is:

          ‘Combat roll’

          (Utterly tactically useless given the angle from where he thought he was being shot from)

          ‘Suppressive fire toward a restrained person in custody in a police cruiser…’

          (“I need to shoot my partner’s car!”)

          ‘… narrowly missing his partner cop…’

          ‘… and with flimsy ass shit tier residential townhomes as the back stop beyond the car.’

          That guy needs to be sentenced to only be allowed to appear in public in a full on clown suit for 5 years.

          Its actually a miracle he didn’t kill anyone.