In Illinois, pressure is mounting for Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell to resign over the fatal police shooting of 36-year-old Sonya Massey. Massey’s family joined civil rights attorney Ben Crump in Chicago Tuesday to demand justice, after a local police union announced it would not continue to challenge the firing of former deputy Sean Grayson, who has also been charged with first-degree murder for killing Massey. The police union had previously represented Grayson and tried to get him reinstated. Crump spoke Tuesday as he called for police reform legislation in Massey’s name.
Benjamin Crump: “We must continue to say her name, Sonya Massey, because Black women who are killed by police officers in the United States of America rarely, rarely get justice.”
Meanwhile, CNN reports a newly surfaced audio recording reveals officer Grayson was previously reprimanded at another agency for filing an inaccurate report about a traffic stop and pursuit, with a superior officer warning Grayson his report could have amounted to “official misconduct” and that he had lied.