Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]

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After fatally shooting an unarmed Black womanwho called 911 to report what she thought was a prowler outside her Illinois home, police claimed her death was in fact self-inflicted, according to the victim’s family and dispatch audio from the incident…….

In bodycam footage captured by Grayson’s partner, which was released on Monday by the Illinois State Police, Grayson can be heard asking dispatch, post-shooting, if Massey has “any call history for being 10-96,” the department’s code for a mentally ill subject.

In contemporaneous radio traffic reviewed by The Independent, a police dispatcher can be heard saying, “Just to confirm: self-inflicted?”

Following a few seconds of confused back-and-forth, an unidentified voice from the scene replies, “Self-inflicted.”……


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...massey-sangamon-county-illinois-b2585344.html