Sonya Massey’s Mother’s 911 Call Revealed

That is in order that very unsatisfied.

Police body camera photos unearths that at the fateful night time of July 6, when two Sangamon County sheriff’s deputies showed up at Sonya Massey’s door, the first thing Massey said to the officials was once, “Don’t harm me.” The deputies answered by means of assuring Massey that they may not harm her and implied it was once faulty that she would think in every other case since she was once the person who referred to as them. Not part an hour later, Massey was once shot useless by means of now-former Deputy Sean Grayson, who’s now coping with numerous bills along side 3 counts of first-degree murder.

On Wednesday, it was once published that Massey isn’t the only person who looked to be having premonitions about brutal law enforcement officials harming or fatally killing a Black person who referred to as them for help. Actually, the day previous than Massey was once shot, her mother, Donna Massey, referred to as 911 to file her daughter experiencing a “mental breakdown.” Throughout that call, Donna moreover immediately asked that whoever was once sent to her daughter’s place of abode now not do her any harm, in keeping with newly introduced 911 recordings.

“I don’t want you guys to hurt her, please,” Donna recommended 911 dispatch spherical 9 a.m. on July 5, in keeping with the Washington Put up.

The 911 operator answered to Donna the an identical method Grayson and his significant other answered to Massey when she expressed her concerns that she would possibly turn out to be a police brutality victim in a while previous than she grew to become a police brutality victim they brushed aside her her concerns and insisted there was once no logical reason to fret the law enforcement officials would possibly do harm.

From the Put up:

When the dispatcher recommended her help was once at the method through which to her daughter’s Springfield, Unwell., place of abode, she spoke back: “Thanks, and please don’t send no combative policemen which might be prejudiced — please.”

He spoke back, “There’s not anything to be afraid of, ma’am.”

Roughly 16 hours later, the law enforcement officials were given right here to “do their task” and Massey was once shot and killed as a result.

Now, the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Workplace—and by means of extension, all police firms right through America—will have to be tasked with reckoning with the fact that Massey spotted her loss of life coming.

Her mother spotted it coming.

Black America is constantly being gaslighted by means of “once more the blue” boot-lickers who love telling us that if we comply, we’ll be great. Daily, Black individuals are recommended that our innate fear of law enforcement officials is ridiculous and so they are able to’t conceive of the risk that Black other folks would possibly run from the law enforcement officials, now not because of they’re accountable, on the other hand because of they’re terrified of being killed. 

They handle telling us our fear is unfounded, and law enforcement officials handle proving to us that the other is correct.