Sonya Massey Death

Say her name.  Sonya Massey was a black woman that was murdered by a white male deputy police officer on the fourth of July weekend.  Thank God for the body camera footage.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go again, Melissa. So this is just a horrible,
horrible story. I'm gonna start with this. Say her name.
Her name is Sonia Massey. Sonia Massey was a black woman.
She was murdered by a white male deputy police officer
on the fourth of July weekend. She called nine to
one one for help. She lives in Springfield, Illinois. Sonia

(00:23):
Massey called the police after she thought there was an
intruder outside her house. The bodycam video was released by
an Illinois state police showing a Sheriff's deputy shot Sonia
Sonia Massey in the face. She was shot in the
head in the face during a tense moment over a
pot of boiling water in her home. That's what this
was all about. In the video, Massey asked the deputy

(00:46):
where you going away from your hot, steaming water. The
deputy responds, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,
Massey says. Massey does not approach the deputies with the pot.
She stays in her kitchen. The deputy you better f
and not. I swear to God I'll e f and
shoot you in your f and face. This is what
Deputy Grayson says, before pulling out his gun. Okay, I'm sorry,

(01:09):
Massy says as she ducks down. Later, Deputy Grayson can
be heard on the camera saying she said she was
going to rebuke me in the name of Jesus and
came at me with boiling water. Sonia's father, mister James Wilburn,
spoke about the bodycam footage on CBS this morning. Take
a listen.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
So I think the cover up started from just right
after it happened. Thank God for the body camera footage.
Just probably the most horrible and heart wrenching thing that
we've ever seen in our lives. But if it were
not for the bodycam footage, we would not have known
that this occurred.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
This is so you know, please real said man, I don't,
I don't. I mean we hear it every other month.
Here goes again, Here it goes again.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
It never.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Then you start, then here's in the whole journey on
what happens to this office, that what's gonna take place
with them next. But at the end of the day,
it just it just seems to never stop. And it's
always our people. It's always us that's getting it. It's
always us you killed and I don't and I don't
wish it on and I don't wish it on anybody always.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
No, of course not, of course not.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
You killed this woman over a pot of water.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
That she was unarmed, she didn't have a gun, right,
she didn't throw the water at me.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
There's no threats.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
And didn't he tell her to take the pot of
boiling water off the stove And that's what she was doing.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Shot in the head, yes.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
And her father, the family has said that she did
have some mental health issues, but she did seek out
treatment and she had treatment for that. At the end
of the day, you killed this woman over a pot
of water.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's what you did in her home.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
That is horris.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Tell me again, what was the purpose of the call.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Was aside outside?

Speaker 3 (03:06):
She called the police.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
She could.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
If you thought an intruder was outside, that's what you
would normally, that's what you called the police. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, really really really sad.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
This is really yeah. Rights were violated, ye, speaking of
civil rights. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the family,
Thank god. Deputy Grayson, meanwhile, has pleaded not guilty to
charges of first degree murder aggravated battery with the firearm
and official misconduct. He is being held in the county

(03:40):
jail where he lives, where he awaits trial. So there
you go saying county jail. Yeah, and she was the
mother of two. By the way, she was a mother
of two.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
This is also something that I read that one of
the family members, one of the friends, said at first,
the police didn't even tell them that they were the
cause of her death. So so now you want to know,
is there a cover up, what what is going on?
What happened that night? And thank god for this bodycam

(04:11):
footage from the other officer, from the other officer that
was on site. They didn't even want to help her,
give her medical aid, any of these things. So all
this is coming out now. So thank god the family
has attorney Benjamin Crump, the case champion of justice.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
I heard he said that she came at him with
the pot of boiling water. That is not true, that you.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Know that video right, that she didn't do that exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
All right, thanks guys. Coming up next, we'll have more
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