Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, moments after shocking police video was released showing an Illinois officer fatally shooting Sonya Massey after she called police fearing a home intruder.

In his first public statement since dropping his bid for re-election, Biden said the shooting of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, by white Sangamon county sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, in her home in Springfield, after a dispute over a pot of boiling water, “reminds us that all too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do not”.

Biden, who is recovering from Covid at his home in Delaware, said Massey, “a beloved mother, friend, daughter and young Black woman … should be alive today”.

  • @PriorityMotif
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    152 months ago

    From other articles I’ve read she was schizophrenic and a neighbor had said that this was a fairly common occurrence.

    • @zerog_bandit
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      342 months ago

      Oh dang, the punishment for schizophrenia in America is execution? You all have it rough over there.

      • @PriorityMotif
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        182 months ago

        Having mental illness in America might as well be a crime. Local jails are just mental healthcare facilities without the mental healthcare.