August 2, 2024
Investigative Report
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The issue of deadly police violence presents an immediate public health crisis in the United States. Increasing evidence indicates that police-inflicted deaths disproportionately affect individuals of specific races and ethnicities, indicating a systemic issue of racism within law enforcement. Recent widely publicized incidents of police killings in the U.S. have led to demands for more comprehensive and transparent reporting of police violence data plus punishment of officers who so carelessly take the lives of people like Miss. Sonya Massey.
Sonya Massey is the most recent known Black citizen who was murdered by a police officer in Sangamon County, Illinois. Massey was a small-framed Black woman who had called the police on July 6, 2024, because she believed that a prowler was in her backyard who either entered her home or was trying to enter her home. Massey had well visits from emergency services before without incident. That's until Officer Sean Grayson showed up. "Roughly 30 minutes had passed between Massey's 911 call and the time that she was shot, according to the call for service detail report" body-camera footage released via the Illinois State Police that shares the deputy speaking calmly with Massey in her home initially. Per a report shared by Channel 11 ABC News per Emma Tucker and Jillian Sykes report titled "Sonya Massey's Mom Called 911 Day Before Shooting To Report Daughter Was Having A Mental Breakdown." August 1, 2024
According to police body camera footage, "Massey goes to the stove at one point to turn off a pot of boiling water. She then picks up the pot," and the other deputy (who actively had his body camera on, unlike Officer Grayson) steps back away from Massey to avoid being splashed with boiling hot water. (Picture Source: Wix Media Unsplash Nadine Shaabana)
The recording shares that Grayson tells Massey to step away from the hot water, which Massey begins to say in a ritualistic manner
"I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,"
Deputy Grayson says. "Huh?"
Massey repeats. "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,"
Grayson says. "You better f**king not, or I swear to God I'll f**king shoot you in the f**king face,"
Pre News Watch 11 report, "He then draws his firearm and points it at her, and Massey ducks and says, "I'm sorry," while lifting the pot, the video shows."
"Drop the f**king pot!" both deputies yell.
Three shots ring out. One deputy calls for emergency medical services after a few seconds of silence.
The video shows the officer talking to Grayson, and Grayson saying:
"Dude, I'm not taking f**king boiling water to the f**king head. And look, it came right to our feet, too." (This reveals that if they had moved back a few feet, they would be out of the danger zone of being splashed with water more than likely. And Massey would be alive today, perhaps in police custody but alive.)
Sean Grayson, the 30-year-old Sangamon County sheriff's deputy who has since been released from the agency, was indicted by a grand jury on July 17, 2024, on three counts of first-degree murder and one count each of aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct in connection with the shooting. But here's the point and example. Its officers like
30-year-old Sean Grayson of Illinois who shot Sonya Massey,
39-year-old Aaron Patty, and 43-year-old Phillip Schmidt of Las Vegas, "who shot and killed 26-year-old Jamarri Daiwon,"
Officer Timothy Loehmann, "who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice,"
Police Sgt. Randall Wetzel of New Jersey shot and murdered "Maurice Gordon, a 28-year-old Dutchess Community College student who lived in Poughkeepsie, was murdered two days before George Floyd was killed" btw.
Trenton Police Department Detective Michael Getters, "who shot and maimed 29 Jajuan Henderson," as well as
Officer Jerry Moravek, 40, was "charged with second-degree aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury and second-degree official misconduct" for the June 11 incident that left Khalif Cooper, 28, with "bullet fragments in his spine and unable to walk."
Furthermore, there are numerous others who have done the same horriffic overreacted behavior, whose names did not make it to the news media as well as publics attention.
https://whyy.org/articles/a-year-after-n-j-state-trooper-fatally-shot-maurice-gordon-jr-his-family-awaits-justice/ https://nj1015.com/trenton-police-shooting-car-jajuan-henderson/
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The ongoing tendency of police departments to hire people with a background of "abuse of power" or a history of racist beliefs toward African American citizens is reprehensible in this day and age. Today's relaunched Echo report will delve into the rise in crime committed against Black citizens. We will refer to information from the USA National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) and three non-governmental, open-source databases on incidents of police violence: Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence, and The Counted. The researched homogenize data such as age, gender, state of death registration, year of death, and race and ethnicity for all individuals. From each data source, we found the trend of police shootings of Black citizens was at the top since 1980.
Many factors, including racism, Confederate affliation, implicit bias, and the institutional culture of police departments, cause police brutality against Black citizens and other ethnic groups in the United States. And because of these particular police officers' racist assumptions, they will more than likely, even if confronted by a little Black woman who they are three times her size, will more than likely murder her simply because she is Black. So the public will have to admit that there is a mental imbalance per police officers who behave in such murderous manners that they have more than likely inherited from their bounty hunter ancestors whose full time occupation was seeking to obtain runaway slaves in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries dead or alive. Hence the engrained behavior of North American police officers who act out just like their bounty hunter ancestors must not be allowed to do the job as the public protector of a town, city, or village. Because they are unable to properly address, behave, or cognitively acknowledge the difference between a real threat and a non-threat. (Per research police officers wives and children can tell you that, but their too afraid to talk because dad's got a gun.)
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Said persons would more than make great fire fighters for example. Because they may sincerely want to protect the public which is a very galiant trait that most men Black, White or indifferent have within themselves. And even though this portion of police officers would make great fire fighters (which many are.) Because of their engrained generational behavior they can not be trusted with a job where they patrol civilians while being armed. Americas not perfect. Hence it is a "We the people," responsibility to step up and demand state policy makers and governors to stop putting citizens lives in jeopardy by arming a person that could be triggered to not injure a person or shoot a bullet in the air to startle said civilians. But instead believes he or she has the right to kill whom they please because they are above the law. (Picture Source: Hrt + Soul Design Wix Unsplashed Media)
Hence, the engrained, learned behavior of the aforementioned population will more than likely act out violently toward fellow citizens just because they are Black Americans. It means simply that racist police officers and those individuals who feel comfortable using the "N" word cannot be police officers. And should be removed from their jobs as police officers or detectives immediately. For a police department to hire generationally known racist citizens to their police department is against the law, not only of the Constitution of the United States. But also the law of common sense. It's like giving a blind person a job as a school bus driver just because they want it, and by allowing said blind person or persons the job ultimately puts all the children who ride that particular school bus lives in knowing danger. And this is what our police department and justice systems do as if they are innocent but share a correlation link to the murders because police departments plus justice systems are either frighten by these individuals themselves. Or are like minded. Which means they may need to be replaced as well. Because their not doing their jobs efficiently. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-pacific-heart/201708/after-charlottesville-is-racism-mental-illness (Picture Source Wix Media)
Hence, sensible law enforcement agents and agencies, along with the population of non-racist American citizens (which there are more in America than you can even realize.) Are going to have to do a Joe Biden and say enough is enough. American citizens near and far most authoritatively address police departments to remove all racist police officers including their Black and Brown cohorts who came to America with racist ideology and hate towards Black American citizens to be removed immediately from the police department. No questions asked. Because it's simply the right thing to do, just like it is, the right thing to do is to put North American citizens' needs, resources, plus privileges first and not outside countries' citizens. These unlawful issues must be addressed for the sake and future of all American children no matter what their decendency is.
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