Video shows deputy in fatal Sonya Massey shooting say, ‘I’ll shoot you in the face’

Video shows deputy in fatal Sonya Massey shooting say, ‘I’ll shoot you in the face’: Body camera footage that was released on Monday afternoon showed that the situation that led to a Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy shooting Sonya Massey quickly escalated.

After firing three shots, the 36-minute video showed Deputy Sean P. Grayson, who was charged with Massey’s murder, saying, “I can’t take hot boiling water to the f***ing face.”

That was a reference to Grayson telling Massey he didn’t want a house fire and Massey retrieving the pot of water from her stove.

Grayson at first didn’t have his body camera on, however one more appointee with Grayson did.

At the point when the other delegate said he planned to get his clinical pack, video shows Grayson saying, “No, a head shot man, she’s finished.”

Grayson calls Massey “f***ing crazy” later in the video.

The video was uploaded to the Illinois State Police channel on YouTube.

Following the release of the video, Sheriff Jack Campbell of Sangamon County issued the following statement:

“An unjustifiable and careless decision made by former Deputy Sean Grayson resulted in the death of Sonya Massey. Grayson ought to have taken advantage of other choices. His activities were unforgivable and don’t mirror the qualities or preparing of our office. He will currently confront judgment by the law enforcement framework and won’t ever

“Ms. Massey unnecessarily lost her life, and her family merits replies. I trust the legitimate cycle will give them. Our law enforcement community’s values and actions are not reflected in this incident. A person with the knowledge, tools, and experience to know better made a tragic choice. We are committed to upholding a standard that stops such tragedies from happening again.”

Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney, stated that the video would “shock the conscience of America like the pictures of Emmett Till after he was lynched” at Massey’s funeral on Friday.

The Mississippi lynching of Till, a 14-year-old, sparked the Civil Rights movement.

Crump likewise anticipated the video would gather comparable responses to Laquan McDonald, who was shot by police multiple times in the back in Chicago, and George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis cop during a capture.

“It is that silly, that pointless, that baseless, that illegal,” Crump said. ” This video is sad in each sense.”

Video shows deputy in fatal Sonya Massey shooting say, ‘I’ll shoot you in the face’: Grayson was summoned under the steady gaze of Managing Circuit Judge Ryan Cadagin in Sangamon District Court Thursday on five Massey called the police in the early morning hours on the report of a potential gatecrasher.

Grayson, a Riverton resident who had been employed by the sheriff’s department since May 2023, was fired from his position on Wednesday by Sheriff Jack Campbell. Grayson has been a police officer since August 2020. Before joining Sangamon County in May 2023, he worked for the Logan County Sheriff’s Office.

As part of the Illinois State Police investigation, a specialist in the field of “use of force” examined the body cam footage and came to the conclusion that Grayson was not justified in using deadly force.

Numerous protests have taken place as a result of the case, including one that drew approximately 200 people to the Springfield NAACP Building on Wednesday afternoon.

Grayson “did not act as trained or in accordance with our standards,” Campbell stated in a statement on Wednesday, and his actions “do not reflect the values and training of the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office or law enforcement as a whole.”