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Headline is ridiculously generous to the cop.

The video from body cameras shows a tense moment in which former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson yelled at 36-year-old Sonya Massey to set down a pot from the stove just seconds after she started pouring the water into the sink and the two giggled over her “hot steaming water.” He then threatens to shoot her, Massey ducks then briefly rises and Grayson fires his pistol at her three times.

Grayson tells her to give him her ID. Then he points to the kitchen for the other deputy to check on the stove. “We don’t need a fire while we’re here.”

Massey goes to the kitchen and after she and Grayson share a laugh, she says, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” and asks him a question.

“You better (expletive) not or I swear to God I’ll (expletive) shoot you in your (expletive) face.” He then pulls his 9mm pistol and says “Drop the (expletive) pot.”

Massey says, “OK, I’m sorry.” In Grayson’s bodycam footage, he pulls the gun and when she ducks, she raises her hands and it looks like she has the red pan in her hands. But Grayson is still in the living room, facing Massey, behind a counter dividing the living room and kitchen, 10 or 15 feet away.

The other deputy, who is not named, said “I’m gonna go get my kit.”

Grayson said, “No, it’s a headshot. She done. You can go get it, but that’s a headshot ... there’s nothing you can do, man.”

He added: “What else do we do? I’m not taking hot (expletive) boiling water to the (expletive) face”

Noting that Massey was still breathing despite losing a lot of blood, he relented and said he would get his kit too. The other deputy responded, “We can at least try to stop the bleeding.”

Speaking to responding police, Grayson told them “she had boiling water and came at me, with boiling water. ... She said she was going to rebuke me in the name of Jesus and came at with boiling water.”

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[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 month ago (3 children)

she had boiling water and came at me

Yeah ... that's not what the video shows.

As always, ACA(murdering)B.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 month ago

Holy fuck

She flinched because fuck-stick McGee pulls a gun, and he shoots her because she flinched.

I'm not a cop, but it's pretty obvious to see she was rattled with them being there. Ever get flustered? That's what she was. She was also alive. Past tense.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All I saw transpire was some cowardly piece of shit murdering a woman

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“It is going to shock the conscience of America. It is that senseless, that unnecessary, that unjustifiable, that unconstitutional,” Crump said.

Unconstitutional.

Like we need a constitution to know it's wrong?

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 14 points 1 month ago

A lot of people do, sadly. But those same people don't know what the Constitution says, just like they call themselves Christians and don't seem the grasp even a rough outline of what Jesus said.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

It would have been so easy to just let her finish pouring the water or even to just back out of the room, and then to shoot her once she's complying and literally cowering down in fear. Disgusting behavior.