In March, a 4-year-old child was shot and killed by Illinois police. We’ve now learned that little Terrell Miller was Sonya Massey’s baby cousin–and that prosecutors have just determined not to file any charges against the officer who fired the weapon. How high does the bar need to be for police officers to be held accountable for their reckless actions?
Sonya Massey’s killer is currently being held without bail on multiple charges including three counts of First Degree murder. However, for that to happen, bodycam footage needed to show such an egregious misuse of lethal force that even former Deputy Sean Grayson‘s own sheriff’s department essentially said, “Nah, we can’t try to justify this nonsense.” (Mind you, Grayson hasn’t been convicted of anything yet.)
For Massey’s little cousin, Terrell Miller, there was no such outcome. In the same state of Illinois where Massey was gunned down, a police officer responded to a domestic dispute involving a knife-wielding man by shooting through a 4-year-old Black child who was being used as a human shield in order to kill the only person who arguably deserved to die on that day, March 16, Anthony T. George, 57. George, who also died that night, had apparently stabbed Terrell’s mother, Keianna, 36 times.
Source: Sonya Massey’s Baby Cousin Terrell Is The 4-Year-Old Black Boy Killed By Illinois Cops In March
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