Sean Grayson’s Record Examined As His Boss Requests Forgiveness

The further we know about  Sonya Massey‘s killer, former Illinois deputy Sean Grayson, the additional obtrusive it becomes that the 30-year-old shouldn’t have had a badge or gun at the time he used the latter to complete Massey’s lifestyles for no discernable purpose. Possibly that’s why Grayson’s former employer is now requesting the “forgiveness” of Massey’s “family and friends.”

In reaction to the Springfield State Journal-Register, Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell mentioned Monday that his department “failed the gang,” implying that it’s on account of that failure that Massey was once shot to lack of lifestyles by means of a trigger-happy cop who, by means of the way in which during which, have been hired by means of six utterly other police firms since 2020 and was once discharged from the U.S. Military for “essential misconduct” in 2016.

“We failed. We didn’t do our jobs,” Campbell during a Division of Justice Group Relations Service listening consultation at Union Baptist Church in Springfield. “We failed Sonya. We failed Sonya’s family and friends.

“I stand proper right here previous than you with my fingers huge open and I ask in your forgiveness. I ask (Donna Massey, Sonya’s mother) for forgiveness. I provide up no excuses,” he endured.

Final week, we discovered that Grayson spent 4 years bouncing from one police corporate to the following like they’ve been earlier pairs of shoes. We discovered that he has two DUI convictions on his document and that the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Workplace, where Grayson was once hired when he shot Massey, knew regarding the DUIs as did his previous employers, unquestionably one among whom wrote in an offer letter to the Auburn Police Division, that “as opposed to Mr. Grayson’s DUI, there were no other issues that he had during his tenure throughout the U.S. Military.”

Apparently, the sheriff’s place of job came upon the hard signifies that Grayson was once a walking purple flag of a cop, and a awesome officer even puzzled why he was once however hired as an officer of the law. “How are you still hired by means of us?!” they asked.

They however didn’t hearth him even though.

From IPM Information:

Personnel knowledge provide that Grayson’s time there was once fraught, even though he was once no longer fired by means of the department. Grayson’s document from Logan County unearths he endured a high-speed pursuit of a guests wrongdoer even after his manager ordered him to terminate it, a girl filed a complaint claiming Grayson attempted to have a look at as she was once strip searched, and her fiancé, who was once in Logan County prison, claimed Grayson puzzled him in front of various inmates as retaliation for his female friend’s complaint.

Logan County Chief Deputy Nathan Miller wrote in a November 2022 document that Grayson sought after “extensive” training after failing to be conscious of his superiors. He wrote Grayson sought after house training, at the side of “further guests stop training, document writing training, high-stress decision making process classes, and will have to be informed, center of attention on and understand issued Logan County Sheriff’s Division insurance coverage insurance policies.”

“Seven months on. How are you still hired by means of us?” Miller asked Grayson during a recorded meeting to discuss Grayson’s movements.

“I don’t know,” Grayson replied.

Grayson endured to serve with Logan County Sheriff’s Division for five further months.

Miller prompt Grayson at the time that because of he was once however in his probationary period, which supposed he might be able to be fired at will, his relatively a couple of violations of the sheriff’s place of job’s insurance coverage insurance policies may lead to his termination—so why TF wasn’t he fired long previous than he was once in a position to walk into Sonya Massey’s place of dwelling and in the end end her lifestyles? 

Grayson may had been fired in 2022 after he endured to chase after a truck,  traveling sooner than 60 mph in 30 mph zones, even after he was once prompt to complete his pursuit by means of his manager. As a change of following his awesome officer’s instruction, Grayson grew to become off his emergency lighting fixtures and siren and endured at speeds more than 100 mph “to deal with the truck in sight,”  based on his document.

Grayson may had been fired a month after his meeting with Miller after the sheriff’s department bought a complaint that Grayson attempted to have a look at as a female detainee was once strip-searched. The complaint against Grayson was once made up our minds to be “unfounded,” alternatively no longer so unfounded that his supervisors didn’t however in point of fact really feel forced to suggest that Grayson download counseling on biggest practices. The purple flags stored rolling in from there.

Extra from IPM:

Two weeks later, the woman’s fiancé, who was once being held in Logan County Jail, filed a complaint pointing out Grayson were given right here to the prison and puzzled him in retaliation.

“He’s angry at her for filing the document and were given right here once more proper right here and asked to speak to me in front of the entire other inmates, who now know that I talked to detectives which may most certainly put me in danger!” the individual wrote.

The police leader throughout the city of Auburn, his previous employer, relayed to Logan County that Grayson was once very competitive about making drug arrests and expressed worry that he was once too competitive. The leader further mentioned Grayson was once a “bragger” who once posted on social media a few drug arrest.

The Auburn leader moreover well-known that Grayson struggled with document writing and was once “no longer great” with evidence – even though the executive relayed that Grayson bought no write-ups or punishment during his time at Auburn.

So, perhaps Sheriff Campbell’s apology to Massey’s family is ready more than how one department “failed the gang.” Possibly his plea for “forgiveness” is an indication that the entire device of policing in America moreover owes an apology to communities during the country, because of it’s simply way too easy for dangerous law enforcement officials to stick hired.

Sean Grayson should had been searching for a brand spanking new line of work, and Sonya Massey should however be alive in an instant. These two truths are in an instant similar, and that’s the true drawback.