I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Those were the last words of Sonia Massie and they arguably awoke the demon inside of a white police officer in Springfield, Illinois. The cops shot and killed the unarmed 36-year-old Sonia Massie. She had been holding a pot of water the cops asked her to take off of her own stove. >> Huh? >> Where you going? >> Away with your hot steam water. >> Away from my hot steaming water. >> Yeah. >> Oh, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. >> Rebuke you in the name of >> You better. That's where I'll you face. >> Okay, I'm sorry. Drop the pot. >> Shots fired. >> Fired. Shots fired. Drop. >> Drop the effing pot. A pot of steaming water. The cops asked her to take off the stove. And yet those cops felt threatened when Massie invoked her god in amazement at the situation. Massie was the person who had called police to report a prowler. Officer Shawn Grayson as the officer opened fire. At least one of his shots struck Massie in the head. The other officer then radioed for an ambulance. >> Bring emails now. We got a headsh shot wound to the female. Headshot wound to female. 1078. >> I was on. I was on. I'm going to go get my kick. She done. You can go get it. But that's a head shot. God damn it. God, >> that's a head shot. She's done, said Deputy Grayson. This incident happened on July 6th at 1 in the morning. Massie had called emergency dispatch to report a possible burglar near her Springfield home. Two deputies from the Sagamont County Sheriff's Office then responded and entered Massiey's home. The police seemed frustrated and asked Massie for her full name and identity. >> Do you have an ID? That'd make things so much easier. >> I just need just a driver's license will do and I'll get out of your hair. >> I want to show y'all my paperwork. >> I will get your paperwork. >> What paperwork? >> I got some paperwork. >> We just get your ID real quick. >> Let's get your ID first and then >> one task at a time here. >> Okay, let me >> here. Grab your ID for me. >> Uhhuh. Okay. >> Your ID. One task at a time. So, let's do an ID and then you can dig around for your uh paperwork. >> I don't know where my ID is. >> You have that stack right there, maybe. >> Okay. One second. >> Check on her. >> Let me move this. >> We don't need a fire while we're here. [Applause] >> Where you going? >> Huh? >> Where you going? >> Away from your hot steaming water. >> Away from my hot steaming water. >> Yeah. >> Oh, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. >> Huh? >> You better not. That's where I got all you. The father of Sonia Massie says he was initially told his daughter had been killed by an intruder and that police happened to discover her body. Then the family alleges they were told Massie had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Eventually, the sheriff's department admitted a deputy had killed Massie and the sheriff asked the state police to conduct an independent review. It took just hours for the state police to determine the truth. Then the sheriff fired Deputy Shawn Grayson and a local prosecutor charged Grayson with three counts of first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, and official misconduct. Grayson has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, but is being held in jail without bond. In the meantime, authorities have now released over 30 minutes of body camera footage. Civil rights attorney Benjamin Trump, who now represents the Massie family, says the police shooting is one of the worst he has ever seen and that the video footage is shocking. Political leaders in Illinois and across the United States agree. President Biden issued a statement saying, "Sonia Massie, a beloved mother, friend, daughter, and young black woman, should be alive today. Sonia's death at the hands of a responding officer reminds us that all too often, black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many the rest of us do not. The group Black Lives Matter is urging all Americans to seek justice through peaceful protest. To be clear, the shooting is horrific and beyond gut-wrenching. It underscores that black people in America cannot escape police violence, even in their own homes. And it's also a stark reminder that America needs to take more steps to address police brutality and misconduct and racism. All too often, police are trained to dominate an interaction. And when somebody looks or seems different from a cop and says something a police officer doesn't like, the officer with a gun and a badge often escalates with force, tossing aside constitutional rights. And when the use of force is physical or violent, innocent people get killed. It doesn't have to be this way. Police can just as easily be trained on deescalation techniques as use of force techniques. A pot of boiling water that a police officer asked someone to move shouldn't be considered a threat. And citizens expressing frustration at police by invoking Jesus or saying anything else should not lead to that citizen's execution. But here we are with police in 2024 in Springfield, Illinois. One can only hope the Massie family gets justice for this outrageous, disgraceful, and inhumane police action. And in the name of whatever god or not that any of us may consider holy, pray that racist policing in America comes to an end. By the way, Donald Trump and his MAGA movement are seething over Vice President Kla Harris. >> They held a primary people. They had ballots. They filled out circles. They went to the voting booth. >> On Fox News, Trump adviser Steven Miller went berserk. >> They spent money on advertisements. And as President Trump said, the the the Republican party spent tens of millions of dollars running against Joe Biden. >> Like if if the other side is freaking out and going crazy, you know you've got them where you want them. >> Check out that video at the link below. I'm David Schuster. Thanks for joining us.