Washington:
The Black Woman Family shot in her house by an Illinois police officer in the USA reached a settlement of $ 10 million with the local Sheriff Department and the Council of Fore.
36-year-old Sonya Massey, mother of two children, was killed by Deputy Sheriff in July last yr in a case that caught the national attention and prompted the then President Joe Biden to say that “she should live today”.
Massey, who in the past received the treatment of mental health problems, called on the 911 rescue line to report a possible intruder in his home, and two deputies of Sangamon’s Sheriff Sheriff got here shortly after midnight.
Massey showed the material from a police camera talking to the officers and the purse searching her after they asked her for identification.
Deputy Sheriff, Sean Grayson, asked her to ascertain a pot of boiling water on the stove, saying: “We don’t need fire when we’re here.”
When Grayson returned to the lounge, Massey asked why and he replied laughing: (*10*)
Holding the pot, Massey calmly replied: “Oh, I will admonish you in the name of Jesus” – encouraging the deputy to attract his weapons and say: “It is better not to fuck. I swear to God, I will fuck you in your fucking face. “
Apiving, Massey crouched behind the counter when the officer shouted “drop a fucking pot” and fired three shots, killing Massey’s face balls.
The Board of Sangamon Country approved a settlement of $ 10 million with Massey property at a meeting on Tuesday.
The prosecutor of civil rights Ben Crump, who represented the families of other African -American victims of police violence, accepted the agreement on Wednesday at the Zoom press conference, calling this “the first step to obtaining full justice for Sonyi Massey.”
“It is very sweet -bitter that on her 37th birthday we announce this historic settlement, which is only the first step on traveling to justice,” said Crump.
Antonio Romanucci, one other family lawyer, said: “Sonya contacted law enforcement agencies for help and instead received brutal, terrifying treatment.
“When Sonya called 911, she didn’t learn about it, but it surely was her death sentence,” said Romanucci. “She called her own death when she called for help.”
Grayson, who’s white, is in the face of allegations of murder and didn’t plead guilty.
The United States was shocked by protests in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd, a black man, by a white police officer in Minnesota.
Floyd’s death enlivened the control of racial relations and caused calls to police reform.
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