I'm just going to direct you to the NBC News story that shows the video in full with the dialogue from the officers, and I'll just say I'm sick.
This is why in communities of color no one wants to call the police.
Everyone's afraid of the police.
Especially if they're Black.
Are you kidding me?
The big bad cop who was afraid of words? It wasn't the pot. It was the Jesus talk coming from a Black woman.
Who had dropped the pot of water anyway.
Something triggered him.
And with power, a gun, and the history of Whiteness on his side.
He shot.
Sure. He's been fired.
But what good does that do now?
Sonya Massey is dead.
Murdered.
She was 36 years-old.
And then there's this:
"Massey’s death carries on a troubling legacy of racial violence in Springfield: Massey’s family said she is a descendant of William Donnegan, a Black man who was lynched by a white mob but survived during the city’s infamous 1908 race riots that took 17 Black lives over a two-day period in mid-August of that year. As a result of the violence and carnage, a group of white and Black Americans banded together to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Massey’s family said that the irony of having to reach out to the NAACP for help after her killing is not lost on them."