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'She called for help and we failed': Sheriff asks forgiveness for Sonya Massey shooting

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.”

Doxatek ,

“We’re sowwy 👉👈😔” oh my God just fuck off and forgiveness doesn’t always deserve given. Just do better. Apologizing doesn’t wipe anything away. Just stop letting this shit happen all the time and knowing/thinking people will just half forget about it

nokturne213 ,

Not only should the officer that murdered her be held accountable, but everyone up the chain of command should be as well. There is no way that they did not know this guy was an unstable loose cannon. His record goes back to when he was an MP.

I am no longer a supporter of capital punishment, but this case is making a strong argument for it.

answersplease77 ,

“Sorry” is an okay first step but wont fix anything. Did you see the resume of the cop who killed her? How the fuck was he hired?

exanime ,

So will there be police reform?!.. God no, instead:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/44fe1d6f-c889-437b-ba18-71f2442131f7.png

charade_you_are ,

“we failed”. “we” shot the person in need of help in the head for no reason. There has to be some stronger wording this dipshit can use than “we failed”. I’d prefer “we shouldn’t exist”

TheOneCurly ,

If a construction worker started cutting beams and caused the building to collapse that wouldn’t be “not doing their job”, that would be active and malicious sabotage. This isn’t even remotely an apology, it makes it sound like they just ignored a call for help, not actively created a situation that no one asked for.

Yawweee877h444 ,

Your apology is not accepted.

You need to suffer severe consequences and accountability for your actions. Severe.

Shawdow194 ,
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"We did not do our jobs."

When most people don't do their jobs they get fired

ACAB

saltesc ,

I’d hate to see what a colossal fuck up looks like if this is a “fail”.

snooggums ,
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By “failed her” he means “killed her”.

ByteOnBikes ,

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/eaf1138e-7e81-4d38-854c-458a5e3edf5d.gif

Ensign_Crab ,

If there’s no actual consequences for the department, this wasn’t a failure. This was a success they don’t like getting bad PR for.

verdantbanana ,
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keep voting in pro police candidates to lead the country and we end up with undertrained over funded police forces that self regulates

octopus_ink ,

“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.”

Sounds nice, and likely sincere, but you did all those things before he killed her, when you hired and retained a man with the authority to kill with the history and issues he had. How about we stop waiting for cops to execute someone before we scrutinize them?

FlyingSquid ,
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“Please accept our apology for this tragic event which we failed to prevent. Please also accept our apology for the next tragic event we fail to prevent.”

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