Fri. Dec 13th, 2024


Hannah Drake felt something akin to emotional whiplash when she saw the video of an Illinois police officer killing Sonya Massey earlier this week. 

Drake, 48, described the moment as the “dichotomy of being a Black woman in America.”

The bodycam footage showing the 36-year-old Black mother of two being shot in her own kitchen by Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson was published Monday. 

Massey had called 911 to report a possible intruder in her Springfield home on July 6. Thirty minutes later, she was dead.

The shooting occurred as another deputy was clearing the house. Grayson began “aggressively yelling” at Massey to put down a pot of boiling water she had removed from her stove, although he had given her permission to do so. Grayson can be heard in the bodycam footage saying “I swear to God. I’ll f— shoot you right in your f— face” before firing a bullet at Massey’s head.




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