Sonya Massey's family calling for Sangamon County, Illinois sheriff to resign

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Published 2024-07-25
The family says they were initially told Massey had died from a self-inflicted injury. However, body camera footage shows a sheriff's deputy shooting and killing her.

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All Comments (21)
  • The sheriff needs to be fired and charged with hiring this ticking time bomb its disgusting and the other one needs to be fired aswell
  • @malaika444
    I refused to watch the video. It's not my idea of entertainment. I offer my condolences 🙏🏿 to Miss Massey's family.
  • Shame on this sheriff department. The officer who shot this lady disgusted me. He should have been fired and blocked from being a law enforcement officer a long long time ago.
  • That video broke my heart. Prayers for the family and true justice from Jesus Christ!!!
  • @usonly101
    The woman obviously had mental problems but the cop unnerves escalated the situation
  • @Changamira
    As a continental African from the up right nation of freedom fighters called, Zimbabwe, this hurts to keep seeing this. I'd like to urge my brothers and sisters in America of African descent to come back home to the lands of their ancestors. Because no one deserves to live in fear of being considered inhuman due to their natural God given melanin. Thanks to the internet, many of us subject to colonial educational parameters now know what for centuries, my American brothers and sisters have had to endure in fear and terror. And that they are still severely marginalised despite the handful of celebrities the bias media propaganda allows us to see. While Africa is not perfect, dying because of blackness is the last worry on that continent. I want to offer my condolences to her family, and those of all the innocent lives lost at the hands of your law enforcers.
  • @racloud355
    Ok Earth Alliance Navy Alliance take that department down WH-Q
  • @72hourbob61
    I do think something should be done about what I call Cop Surfing. Some people should not be a Cop, I could not be a Cop as I could not control my temper.
  • @rontait6183
    Keep the pressure on to get the sheriff's resignation.
  • Hate to say this but realistically if this were 2 "black" officers instead of 2 "white" officers then the "black" lady would still be alive.
  • @jabreck1934
    I am 100% committed to my perspective before ANY Proof has been presented.🤪😜
  • @Rachel-ni2do
    This entire LE needs to be over turned and rebuilt. People are not safe from the people who are to protect.😮