Sonya Massey was murdered unjustly by a police workplace with a sordid historical past behind the badge and will have acquired probably the most elevated degree of justice. Sadly, that wasn’t the case. Yesterday, BOSSIP reported that former Sangamon Sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson was solely convicted of second-degree homicide and was cleared of the first-degree cost that he was additionally dealing with. In consequence, as a substitute of dealing with 45 years in jail, seemingly the remainder of his pure life, he’ll now solely be dealing with 20 years behind bars. It ought to go with out saying the the household and the neighborhood at-large shouldn’t be remotely glad.
Mentioned Donna Massey following the decision, through KSDK:
“Anybody who noticed the video and thought it was partly Sonya’s fault is inhumane,” stated her mom Donna Massey. “I can’t wait til he will get to hell.”
Sonya’s father James Wilburn adopted up with an identical sentiment:
“Sean Grayson ought to be capable to get out of jail when my daughter can get out of that burial vault,” stated James Wilburn, Massey’s father. “He stated he was going to shoot her within the face and he did it.”
Sontae Massey, Sonya’s cousin, spoke to the soul-crushing circumstance that Black folks have been painfully pressured to acknowledge for years.
“I’m fueled by rage proper now,” stated Sontae Massey, cousin to Sonya Massey. “The justice system did precisely what it’s designed to do at the moment. It’s not meant for us.”
This conviction is past disappointing and we will solely hope that the karma that Sean Grayson so richly deserves catches up with him contained in the chilly and unforgiving partitions of a jail bathe.
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