White deputy Sean Grayson shot Sonya Massey, who called police fearing a home intruder, after boiling water dispute
Authorities have released shocking video that shows a white police officer in Illinois shooting a Black woman – who called police in fear of a home intruder – in the face, killing her.
I noticed another comment that mentioned he had been working for a few departments over the years, so probably he just did too much finally. Mean don't get me wrong I'm happy an officer is being charged for crimes committed but I'm guessing there're reasons he has a longer work history and probably shouldn't have been hired multiple times in the past. Again this was off a comment so maybe the information isn't accurate but when it's so easy to believe is a pretty bad situation of police officers in general.
Most police in the modern day receive consequences.
Up until about 2010 it was almost never, with exceptional exceptions when something obscenely over the top happened. After that it was hit or miss, until 2020 happened and body cams were universal and ever since then it was pretty much decided. Since then it’s been pretty much all consequences all the time except in insanely Deep South departments that haven’t gotten up to speed with the times or something. And even then, usually some larger agency will step in, and consequences.
The rhetoric on the left hasn’t changed, and still assumes every cop is the enemy at all times and nobody gets any credit for the change in culture in policing to the point that the frontline police are probably the least of the problems in our still pretty overall unjust “justice” system, which kind of pisses me off tbh.
This is pretty out of touch as someone who sees new bodycam videos daily of cops violating people's civil rights and who has had run ins with crooked cops. In places like Portland and Seattle, the police departments have been under federal consent decrees due to a pattern of violating constitutional rights. This isn't relegated to the deep south and is actually quite common in the more "liberal" cities of the country (CO police have had numerous issues lately). We're just a couple years out from George Floyd and things have barely changed.
The rhetoric on the left hasn’t changed, and still assumes every cop is the enemy at all times and nobody gets any credit for the change in culture in policing to the point that the frontline police are probably the least of the problems in our still pretty overall unjust “justice” system, which kind of pisses me off tbh.
So after more than a century of abuse and coverups that will never see the light of day, decades of (predominantly) black entertainers and comedians ringing the bell on this over and over, and nothing being done, Rodney King not being enough of a wake up call to effect any meaningful change, and despite the fact that the problem is still not fully solved and that to this day people claim Chauvin should not have been convicted, you are upset that a few headlines about cops being prosecuted hasn't completely turned the bus around on attitudes towards police yet in the four years since 2020?
How about when there isn't a new story like this once every couple weeks for a few years? Maybe we can check then to see if it's time for an attitude adjustment on "the left." Because consequences are great, but if cops are still behaving like this it means that even they figure they will probably still get away with it.
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And when they stop having such non-existent standards for kicking someone out (or hiring them in the first place) maybe we'll see some actual change. This is about the "good apples" refusing to toss out the bad ones. (and we all know what that does to the "good" ones)
He had been hired by Sangamon county despite two charges of driving under the influence, the Springfield State Journal-Register reported, and had worked for other law enforcement agencies in Illinois for seven years before arriving in Springfield.
Wonder why he left those other agencies? And I'm not even focusing on the 2x DUI.
Sean Grayson - Killed a woman who was cowering in fear after threatening him, he told her he would shoot her and then he did while she had her hands up saying “I’m sorry”
Authorities have released shocking video that shows a white police officer in Illinois shooting a Black woman – who called police in fear of a home intruder – in the face, killing her.
"scared for muhh life" trick don't appear to work anymore?
these body cameras really making policing a hard job...
This woman was in no condition to use a gun. I don't know if she had a health/mental issue, or if she was high as hell, but she was nowhere around coherent. That ex cop deserves everything he's about to get. They should have requested EMS 60 seconds in to speaking with her.