COPS behaving badly

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Illinois deputy charged with murder after shooting a Black woman
Sonya Massey called 911 to report a prowler when Sean Grayson ‘aggressively yelled’ and fatally shot her in face

Erum Salam and agencies
Fri 19 Jul 2024 20.17 CEST

An Illinois sheriff’s deputy has been charged with murder after fatally shooting a Black woman who called 911 to report a possible prowler.

Sangamon county deputy Sean Grayson, who’s white, shot 36-year-old Sonya Massey in the face in her home in Springfield, Illinois – about 200 miles south of Chicago – after deputies responded to her 6 July call.

Prosecutors alleged that after Grayson, 30, allowed Massey to move a pot of water heating on the stove and set it on a counter. Grayson then “aggressively yelled” at Massey over the pot and pulled his 9mm pistol. Massey then put her hands in the air, declared “I’m sorry” and ducked for cover before being shot in the face.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... ged-murder

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According to this last article, another guy who should never have become a police officer.

[Rolodex]

Why did they even go in? The extended video shows they knocked on the door (a lot). She'd called them, thinking she'd heard a prowler. Once they checked and finally got her to open the door and told her they didn't find anything, why didn't they just...leave? Idk police procedures, but I don't understand why they ever went into her house.

And homeboy could have jumped out of the way if she'd tried to toss boiling water onto him. But she ducked down before he shot her.

[John Thomas8]

Here's a whole bunch o' asshats:

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Sonya Massey killing: family accuse police of attempted cover-up
Audio obtained by the Guardian reveals police dispatcher was told Black woman’s fatal wound was ‘self-inflicted’

Justin Glawe
Wed 24 Jul 2024 00.23 CEST

The family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who was shot in the face and killed by a white sheriff’s deputy in Illinois, have said police initially tried to cover up her killing.

Police audio obtained by the Guardian features someone on scene the night of Massey’s killing – presumably a deputy – saying Massey’s wound was “self-inflicted”. A dispatcher asks to confirm, and the person on scene repeats “self-inflicted”. The recording is in line with what the family says was misleading information given by police when Massey was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

At a press conference on Tuesday, the family said police initially told Massey’s loved ones she had either killed herself or was killed by an intruder.

“They tried to make me believe that a neighbor had did it,” said Jimmie Crawford Jr, Massey’s former partner and the father of one of her children, who added that law enforcement told nurses at the hospital that Massey had “killed herself”. “How do you get that confused?” said Crawford Jr.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... e-cover-up

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Fremont business owner wrongly arrested

WTVG 13abc Action News | Toledo, OH
4 days ago

A Fremont business owner was taken to jail in a case of mistaken identity.

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Mistaken identity my ass. Police officers only going by first name of suspect and never asking for ID.

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