The sheriff for Illinois’ Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office, which employed the former deputy who shot and killed Sonya Massey in her home earlier this month after she called 911 to report a possible intruder, said during public comments Monday night that they had “failed” her.
“Sonya Massey – I speak her name and I’ll never forget it,” Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell said during a “Community Healing & Listening Session” Monday night at Union Baptist Church in Springfield. “She called for help and we failed. That’s all she did: call for help."
“I’m going to say something right now I’ve never said in my career before: we failed,” Campbell continued. "We did not do our jobs. We failed Sonya. We failed Sonya’s family and friends. We failed the community. I stand here today before you with arms wide open to ask for forgiveness.”
“I’m going to say something right now I’ve never said in my career before: we failed,” Campbell continued. "We did not do our jobs. We failed Sonya. We failed Sonya’s family and friends. We failed the community. I stand here today before you with arms wide open to ask for forgiveness.”
Great. So how did you end up hiring this known asshole, and what are you going to do to keep it from happening again?
Hiring “bad apples” needs to be a crime for the sheriff, chief, etc. It’s sad that’s what it would take to keep guns and badges out of these guys hands.
Nice words. Truly. But words are meaningless without actions to back them up and make sure it never happens again.
Yeah. Cops always want to treat this as a one off incidents no one could have saw coming…
Isnt this one of the ones where dude was fired from multiple agencies and kept getting hired?
If these cops want “forgiveness” they need to be proactive and fire every other cop they employ like this, and stop hiring new ones.
They want to blame the bad apples, but refuse to get rid of them until it’s national news.
