Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, moments after shocking police video was released showing an Illinois officer fatally shooting Sonya Massey after she called police fearing a home intruder.

In his first public statement since dropping his bid for re-election, Biden said the shooting of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, by white Sangamon county sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, in her home in Springfield, after a dispute over a pot of boiling water, “reminds us that all too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do not”.

Biden, who is recovering from Covid at his home in Delaware, said Massey, “a beloved mother, friend, daughter and young Black woman … should be alive today”.

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    5 months ago

    6 departments in 4 years, this cop shouldn’t have had a job period. This department is partly liable for this just by employing him

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      5 months ago

      Make police officers individually responsible for carrying insurance for their job.

      If they can’t behave then they won’t be able to afford the insurance as the insurance company will raise the fees, and then they can’t get a job they shouldn’t be doing in the first place