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The sheriff for Illinois' Sangamon County Sheriff's Office, which employed the former deputy who shot and killed Sonya Massey in her home earlier this month after she called 911 to report a possible intruder, said during public comments Monday night that they had "failed" her.

“Sonya Massey – I speak her name and I'll never forget it,” Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell said during a “Community Healing & Listening Session” Monday night at Union Baptist Church in Springfield. “She called for help and we failed. That's all she did: call for help."

"I'm going to say something right now I've never said in my career before: we failed," Campbell continued. "We did not do our jobs. We failed Sonya. We failed Sonya’s family and friends. We failed the community. I stand here today before you with arms wide open to ask for forgiveness.”

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[–] ccunning 107 points 7 months ago (5 children)

"I'm going to say something right now I've never said in my career before: we failed," Campbell continued. "We did not do our jobs. We failed Sonya. We failed Sonya’s family and friends. We failed the community. I stand here today before you with arms wide open to ask for forgiveness.”

Great. So how did you end up hiring this known asshole, and what are you going to do to keep it from happening again?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Forgiveness demands a commitment to be better in the future. No matter how eloquently and humbly phrased, this is just "sorry" if there are no concrete actions being committed to.

[–] ccunning 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The common refrain from my childhood was “‘Sorry’ isn’t good enough”.

It was really annoying at 8yo, but I get it now…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I'm sure even when you heard it as an 8 year old It wasn't after you shot someone in the face for no reason. Lmao.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Police chief:

To ensure this doesn't happen again, we've prepared hundreds of "I'm sorry" templates that will fire off. So when our officers do heinous shit like this again, the Sorry will be within 24 hours, not a week later.

Some examples of these, you ask?

Sorry for shooting your dog.

Sorry for roughing up your grandfather.

Sorry for showing up at the robbery hours later.

Sorry for laughing when you called for aid.

Sorry for raping that woman.

Sorry for all stats about us beating our spouses and partners.

Sorry for spending millions on taxpayer money on surveillance that statistically has shown it doesn't move the needle in public safety

We can do better. By saying sorry faster.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Don't forget the newest hit single; "Sorry we shot through your four-year-old child in order to kill the man holding him hostage."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Sorry for spending millions on taxpayer money on surveillance that statistically has shown it doesn’t move the needle in public safety

Hey do you have supporting links for this? I'm not asking to challenge you, I'm asking because I'd like to have some of those at hand in related/similar discussions.

[–] Zombiepirate 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wow, this is the first time that police department has failed with him at the helm? What an incredible record!

In the sense that it lacks credibility.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

and what are you going to do to keep it from happening again?

"People are asking questions. What we are going to do to stop anyone from finding out when this happens next time?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Hiring “bad apples” needs to be a crime for the sheriff, chief, etc. It’s sad that’s what it would take to keep guns and badges out of these guys hands.