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Attorneys for Sonya Massey’s family call for legislative change

August 15, 2024 | By BETH HUNSDORFER CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS

Members of Sonya Massey’s family and their attorneys called a news conference Wednesday to push for federal and state legislation in the wake of Massey’s shooting. Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump called former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson “a ticking time bomb waiting to explode,” but also blamed a system that failed to heed…

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In the wake of Sonya Massey’s death, advocates want the state to act

August 1, 2024 | By Andrew Adams, Capitol News Illinois

CHICAGO – Calls of “Justice for Sonya” rang through the sanctuary of a church on Chicago’s West Side on Tuesday at a rally hosted in response to the death of Sonya Massey on July 6. Massey, a Black woman, was killed in her home by Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson. Grayson, who is white,…

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