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”.

  • @assassin_aragorn
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    122 months ago

    I mean, we have statistics that say this is a racially biased problem. By default the conversation needs to involve race.

    • @ImpressiveEssay
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      -122 months ago

      I would love this to be teased out.

      Could you explain the chain of events that specifically means this cop deserves to lose his job and be called a murdered… Because of those statistics.

      Genuinely i think it would be educational if everyone understood that chain of logic…