The deputy sheriff who fatally shot Sonya Massey in her Illinois home last month said he believed that when the Black woman who called 911 for help unexpectedly said, "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus," that she intended deadly harm, according to the deputy's field report released Monday.
"I interpreted this to mean she was going to kill me," Sean Grayson wrote, adding that when he drew his pistol and Massey ducked behind a counter that separated them, he moved around the obstacle fearing that she was going to grab a weapon.
This has got to end...
ReplyDeleteTwo Words: Chicken Shit
ReplyDeleteHe also got shitcanned as a PFC from Ft Riley for a DUI: an 'Other Than Honorable Conditions (OTH) discharge' in 2015/16. He then ALSO had a couple of OTHER DUIs as well. My question is how the fuck did he become a cop!?! Are they that desperate for bodies? My guess he's the 'perfect enforcer type' and THIS particular shooting was SO egregious, they couldn't cover it up.
I had to fire a man once because he got a DUI and the company's auto policy would not cover him to drive the company truck. But this guy can get DUIs and still be a cop?
DeleteI lost my first job after I got out of the army because I got a DUI. It was a small family owned business and they couldn't afford the increase in their auto insurance.
Delete“Are they that desperate for bodies?”. Municipalities-yes, and they’re harder to shit can when they fuck up. Sheriffs Offices- not so much in either regard.
DeleteI don't know any state that will allow applicants with 'less than honorable' discharges get police credentials. Something's hinky here.
DeleteIllinois. You don't even have to be a legal immigrant to be the police.
DeleteIn Chicago, drug, gang, and domestic violence CONVICTIONS are not disqualifying to apply to be police there.
John in Indy
I don't know how much they'd have to pay me to be a cop right now. Cops have to worry about a more violent unpredictable population, and on top of that the chance that they might get "Chauvined." So I'm sure police forces are scraping the bottom of the barrel -- and this just makes the problem worse. It's a feedback loop of contempt between the police and the people they "serve and protect."
DeletePart of the problem, as you guys have stated, is that cops seem much less willing to risk their own lives than they were in the past. I think part of that is society's abandonment of the classical virtues. Courage and self-sacrifice are no longer valued.
We wonder if the asshole was tested for 'roids. And he already told her he'd shoot her in the face.
ReplyDeleteBullshit. He's lying. You know it, and I know it. She was NEVER a threat. If he was afraid of the pot of water he could have backed up a single step and he'd have been safe.
ReplyDeleteAny cops wo support this asshole really shouldn't be cops either.
So much THIS!
DeleteI don't know how to agree with you more. This murderous sack of shit should get the needle.
DeleteGrasping at straws, he is.
ReplyDeleteI say not being predisposed to think everyone is wanting to kill him is important.
Why else would he interpret her words as he claims. His understanding was overruled by fear.
Fear? Is there such a word as "assholery"? If so, thats what overruled his understanding.
DeleteThis was murder. Plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteYep.
DeleteI always laugh when I see "To serve and protect" on cop cars.
ReplyDeleteMake a stencil to add 'our own' in the same font.
DeleteThat was a extremely bad shoot,
ReplyDeleteJD
Coward, cop-fuck. Hopefully he'll get jail house justice in the slammer.
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