Authorities have released shocking video that shows a white police officer in Illinois shooting a Black woman – who called police in fear of a home intruder – in the face, killing her.

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    4 months ago

    Grayson has been arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder and is being held without bond until his trial is set to begin

    Holy shit, is this real life? Consequences?!

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        The video is damning as hell.

        If they let him walk, the correct course of action is to barricade the doors to the police station and burn it down with the livestock inside.

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      wtf… did my time line just switched? cop did a crime and it was taken seriously?

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        I noticed another comment that mentioned he had been working for a few departments over the years, so probably he just did too much finally. Mean don’t get me wrong I’m happy an officer is being charged for crimes committed but I’m guessing there’re reasons he has a longer work history and probably shouldn’t have been hired multiple times in the past. Again this was off a comment so maybe the information isn’t accurate but when it’s so easy to believe is a pretty bad situation of police officers in general.

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          He had been hired by Sangamon county despite two charges of driving under the influence, the Springfield State Journal-Register reported, and had worked for other law enforcement agencies in Illinois for seven years before arriving in Springfield.

          From the linked article

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          thanks for sharing, to my skeptical ass that makes way more sense, ie bosses knew what they need to do for CYA, no union gonna do shit about it.

          I guess it is still a small win, but a big L, this woman is dead. That is not good enough!

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      4 months ago

      Yeah well he filmed it didn’t he the idiot. You have to let the authorities have plausible deniability everyone knows that.

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        The video is from his partner/other cop on the scene. He didn’t even have his body cam on until after.

        This is a person who wanted to shoot people and got his chance.