After Videos Of A Black Woman's Killing By Police Were
Moments after startling police footage showing an Illinois cop killing Sonya Massey after she contacted police fearing a house invader was leaked, Joe Biden urged Congress to approve the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. In his first public speech following a conflict over a pot of boiling water, Biden said the shooting of 36-year-old Black woman Massey by white Sangamon county sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson in her house in Springfield, "reminds us that all too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do". Recovering from COVID-19 at his Delaware residence, Biden remarked, "a beloved mother, friend, daughter and young Black woman... should be alive today." "When we call for help, all of us as Americans – regardless of who we are or where we live – should be able to do so without fearing for our life," he said in the statement adding: "Sonya's family deserves justice." "Let us pray to ease the grieving while we wait for the case to be prosecuted," he said. Congress has to act now to enact the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Our basic dedication to justice is on trial here. Known as HR-1280, the legislation raises law enforcement responsibility for misbehavior and tackles a spectrum of problems in policing techniques, including racial prejudice and too forceful methods. The House passed the measure in 2021; it languished in the Senate. The comment coincided with a planned protest march on Monday evening following the publication of police bodycam footage revealing a fast worsening scenario. After Grayson informed Massey he did not want a home fire, Massey was pulling a kettle of water off the stove. Massey questioned the officials, who clearly turned away from her as she walked to tend to the pot, about their behavior. "Where you going?" she asks them. Grayson
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