The former sheriff's deputy charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman killed inside her Illinois home, had been employed by a half-dozen police agencies since 2020, according to state law enforcement records.
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00:00The issue we're here for today, they expressed to the governor, starting with Mr. Wilburn,
00:07this whole thing about how they seem to not have been told the truth at the very beginning.
00:17And the family kept drawing our attention to the fact that they were saying it was self-inflicted.
00:27Initially it was some intruder who did it, but they never said it was law enforcement who did it.
00:34And so Attorney Jackson got from Mr. Wilburn and the family the audio.
00:42I want to say again, I'm calling for the sheriff's resignation,
00:48because I think it's a culture to treat this family this bad, to call these lies.
00:55If it were not for that camera footage, we as a people, they would have lied,
01:01and they would have lied their way right out of this.
01:04So he needs to resign.
01:07So no matter who of his emissaries try to come and talk to me,
01:12I'm not going to talk to anybody unless my attorney's with me,
01:18because you will never twist anything I said.
01:21I'm very clear, and I'm very eloquent.
01:24He needs to resign.
01:27We will continue to say her name, Sawyer Massey.
01:33We will continue to say justice for Sawyer Massey.
01:37We will continue to fight for justice for Sawyer Massey.
01:42We don't want it to be swept under the rug.
01:45We don't want another Laquan McDonald.
01:47We were very clear with the governor on that.