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.
Grayson has been arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder and is being held without bond until his trial is set to begin
Holy shit, is this real life? Consequences?!
Let’s wait to see if he’s convicted.
“Consequences for my actions? But that’s for poor people, like menial jobs and cholera!”
wtf… did my time line just switched? cop did a crime and it was taken seriously?
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.
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.
From the linked article
I’d like to know which departments he worked at before.
thanks for sharing, to my skeptical ass that makes way more sense, ie bosses knew what they need to do for CYA, no union gonna do shit about it.
I guess it is still a small win, but a big L, this woman is dead. That is not good enough!
Yeah well he filmed it didn’t he the idiot. You have to let the authorities have plausible deniability everyone knows that.
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.
someone who sees new bodycam videos daily of cops violating people’s civil rights
That doesn’t mean anything though. You can find new body cam videos daily of cops bending over backwards to try to protect people’s rights. Neither of it means anything. It could be happening 1% of the time, or 50%, or 99%, and there would still be daily videos showing one or the other. The US is a big place; there are literally millions of new bodycam videos being produced every single day.
I actually don’t know what the number is - I have kind of my perception that it’s rare but that’s not based on too much hard data tbh. Do you know anything in terms of how quantitatively common it is?
Actually maybe a more basic question - can you send me a couple of these videos from this week? You and I may have different definitions of violating people’s civil rights.
and who has had run ins with crooked cops
I mean I am biased because in my area the cops are super professional; I’ve seen them in more than one heated dispute with someone and never seen them be anything but cool about it. But like I say I think the real question is how quantitatively common it is.
In places like Portland and Seattle, the police departments have been under federal consent decrees due to a pattern of violating constitutional rights.
Can you tell me more / link to a story? I would want to know more about it.
We’re just a couple years out from George Floyd
4 years
The big shift that I saw was after 2020 with George Floyd and the other big instances that year and the massive shitstorm that ensued. Honestly, that stuff makes a difference. Without the protest I think things would have stayed more or less in the sometimes-yes-sometimes-no land.
But like I say that’s all just my anecdotal perception. I actually think it would be good to bring something quantifiable to it.
It doesn’t really matter if some cops bend over backwards to help people when they turn around and circle the wagons every time one of them harms an innocent person, violates someone’s rights, beats their spouses, murders someone, robs someone via asset forfeiture, or commits a slough of other crimes.
The issue is the lack of accountability from their departments and the laws that make them immune from being held liable for their actions. The expression goes “a few bad apples spoil the bunch” and those apples have been rotting for decades. Imagine going into your job, shooting someone in the face because something like an acorn falling startled you, and all your boss does is send you on a two week paid vacation. How fucking insane is that?
Here’s some channels to check out:
https://www.youtube.com/@thecivilrightslawyerhttps://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbEPXqDvej-3mciZxwYmdew
https://www.youtube.com/c/wethepeopleuniversity
Portland and Seattle consent decrees: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/07/27/us-justice-department-portland-police-use-of-force-settlement/
https://seattlepolicemonitor.org/overview
I don’t think much has changed in the last 4 years. It seems people just dug their heels in about things. I will say there has been progress but it’s very slow.and incremental and only the most egregious cases like this are prosecuted when previously they would have been swept under the rug.
You can find new body cam videos daily of cops bending over backwards to try to protect people’s rights
please link to one
I’ve seen plenty where I thought I would beat some ass, and the cops are cool. You won’t find much of that because why would anyone post a routine police interaction?
Far be it for me to defend the pigs, I loathe them.
Sure, here’s one from Audit the Audit. I like that channel because it is more or less unique in taking neither the “pro police” or “anti police” viewpoint and just kind of taking things as they come and judging everyone involved in the interaction according to their behavior. Sometimes the cops are the good guys and sometimes they are the bad guys in it but it’s not like predisposed to one outcome or the other being always the answer, which it seems like is how almost every other person in the debate looks at it.
1,166 people have been shot and killed by police in the past 12 months
Yes it must be the Left’s fault for your feelings.
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.
Edited to add:
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.
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…
That footage is terrible. I’m tired of Police as a collective being rewarded with funding increases for their racism and bloodlust. RIP Sonya.
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”
Let’s see the tats. I’m pretty sure I know what I’m going to find, though.
She threatened him with boiling water… so he got closer to her?
Here y’all go.
Truly disgusting. Hopefully Grayson remains behind bars for a life sentence, but that wont bring anyone back.
Huh, I saw this on 4chan earlier today, I thought it was old
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And this is why I have a Colt .45 on my desk and a S&W .380 on my nightstand.
If you think someone is in your home? It’s too late to call the cops, and it’s an especially bad idea if you’re not white and at least middle class.
Outside the home? Absolutely call the cops, but be prepared if the situation escalates.
And this is why I have a Colt .45 on my desk and a S&W .380 on my nightstand.
Hopefully not so you can kill a family member! (Was that a myth?)
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.
She was paranoid schizophrenic.
