Sean Grayson’s Record Examined As His Boss Requests Forgiveness

The extra we find out about  Sonya Massey‘s killer, former Illinois deputy Sean Grayson, the extra evident it turns into that the 30-year-old shouldn’t have had a badge or gun on the time he used the latter to finish Massey’s life for no discernable motive. Possibly that’s why Grayson’s former employer is now asking for the “forgiveness” of Massey’s “household and mates.”

In response to the Springfield State Journal-Register, Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell stated Monday that his division “failed the group,” implying that it is because of that failure that Massey was shot to loss of life by a trigger-happy cop who, by the way in which, had been employed by six totally different police companies since 2020 and was discharged from the U.S. Military for “critical misconduct” in 2016.

“We failed. We didn’t do our jobs,” Campbell throughout a Division of Justice Group Relations Service listening session at Union Baptist Church in Springfield. “We failed Sonya. We failed Sonya’s household and mates.

“I stand right here earlier than you with my arms large open and I ask to your forgiveness. I ask (Donna Massey, Sonya’s mom) for forgiveness. I supply up no excuses,” he continued.

Final week, we realized that Grayson spent 4 years bouncing from one police company to the subsequent like they have been previous pairs of footwear. We realized that he has two DUI convictions on his report and that the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Workplace, the place Grayson was employed when he shot Massey, knew in regards to the DUIs as did his earlier employers, certainly one of whom wrote in a suggestion letter to the Auburn Police Division, that “other than Mr. Grayson’s DUI, there have been no different points that he had throughout his tenure within the U.S. Military.”

Apparently, the sheriff’s workplace discovered the laborious means that Grayson was a strolling crimson flag of a cop, and a superior officer even questioned why he was nonetheless employed as an officer of the regulation. “How are you continue to employed by us?!” they requested.

They nonetheless didn’t fireplace him although.

From IPM Information:

Personnel information present that Grayson’s time there was fraught, although he was not fired by the division. Grayson’s file from Logan County reveals he continued a high-speed pursuit of a visitors offender even after his supervisor ordered him to terminate it, a lady filed a criticism claiming Grayson tried to look at as she was strip searched, and her fiancé, who was in Logan County jail, claimed Grayson questioned him in entrance of different inmates as retaliation for his girlfriend’s criticism.

Logan County Chief Deputy Nathan Miller wrote in a November 2022 report that Grayson wanted “in depth” coaching after failing to take heed to his superiors. He wrote Grayson wanted area coaching, together with “extra visitors cease coaching, report writing coaching, high-stress determination making course of courses, and must learn, focus on and perceive issued Logan County Sheriff’s Division insurance policies.”

“Seven months on. How are you continue to employed by us?” Miller requested Grayson throughout a recorded assembly to debate Grayson’s actions.

“I don’t know,” Grayson responded.

Grayson continued to serve with Logan County Sheriff’s Division for 5 extra months.

Miller instructed Grayson on the time that as a result of he was nonetheless in his probationary interval, which meant he could possibly be fired at will, his quite a few violations of the sheriff’s workplace’s insurance policies might result in his termination—so why TF wasn’t he fired lengthy earlier than he was able to stroll into Sonya Massey’s residence and finally finish her life? 

Grayson might have been fired in 2022 after he continued to chase after a truck,  touring quicker than 60 mph in 30 mph zones, even after he was instructed to finish his pursuit by his supervisor. As a substitute of following his superior officer’s instruction, Grayson turned off his emergency lights and siren and continued at speeds greater than 100 mph “to maintain the truck in sight,”  in accordance with his report.

Grayson might have been fired a month after his assembly with Miller after the sheriff’s division obtained a criticism that Grayson tried to look at as a feminine detainee was strip-searched. The criticism in opposition to Grayson was decided to be “unfounded,” however not so unfounded that his supervisors didn’t nonetheless really feel compelled to advocate that Grayson obtain counseling on greatest practices. The crimson flags saved rolling in from there.

Extra from IPM:

Two weeks later, the lady’s fiancé, who was being held in Logan County Jail, filed a criticism stating Grayson got here to the jail and questioned him in retaliation.

“He’s offended at her for submitting the report and got here again right here and requested to talk to me in entrance of all the different inmates, who now know that I talked to detectives which might probably put me at risk!” the person wrote.

The police chief within the metropolis of Auburn, his earlier employer, relayed to Logan County that Grayson was very aggressive about making drug arrests and expressed concern that he was too aggressive. The chief additional stated Grayson was a “bragger” who as soon as posted on social media a couple of drug arrest.

The Auburn chief additionally famous that Grayson struggled with report writing and was “not nice” with proof – although the chief relayed that Grayson obtained no write-ups or punishment throughout his time at Auburn.

 

So, possibly Sheriff Campbell’s apology to Massey’s household is about greater than how one division “failed the group.” Possibly his plea for “forgiveness” is a sign that the whole system of policing in America additionally owes an apology to communities throughout the nation, as a result of it’s merely means too simple for unhealthy cops to stay employed.

Sean Grayson ought to have been in search of a brand new line of labor, and Sonya Massey ought to nonetheless be alive immediately. These two truths are immediately related, and that’s the actual downside.