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Speaker 1: According to USA Today, Springfield, Illinois, Sangamon County Sheriff Jack

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Speaker 1: Campbell said that his department failed a community on the

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Speaker 1: July sixth in the July six fatal shooting of Sonia Massey.

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Speaker 1: He said, we failed, We did not do our jobs.

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Speaker 1: We failed Sonya. We failed Sonya's family and her friends.

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Speaker 1: Sheriff Campbell went on to say, I stand here before

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Speaker 1: you with my arms wide open, and I asked for

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Speaker 1: your forgiveness. I asked Donna Massey, Sonia's mother, for forgiveness.

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Speaker 1: I offered no excuses. The sheriff also said he would

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Speaker 1: not resign. Many residents were outraged and spoke out at

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Speaker 1: the session. One resident said she should be able to

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Speaker 1: call the police. They're meant to protect and serve, but

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Speaker 1: apparently here in Springfield, as shown on camera, they harass

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Speaker 1: and unfortunately kill.

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Speaker 2: Who was you called the police to come to your

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Speaker 2: house because you feel like somebody is intruding on you

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Speaker 2: in they take they come over and take you out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they come on.

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Speaker 4: Man, they kill all nose and I think a lot

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Speaker 4: of people, you know, in the community, was community was

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Speaker 4: asking or demanding expecting the share to resign, including Sonya

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Speaker 4: Massey's father, he wanted him to resign. So this is

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Speaker 4: not listening session, right, this listening session yesterday or a

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Speaker 4: couple of days ago when they had the session, he

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Speaker 4: said he was not going to resign.

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Speaker 3: So there are some issues in.

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Speaker 4: That community obviously from this horrific killing of Sonia Massey.

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Speaker 4: And there's there's a trust problem now with law enforcement

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Speaker 4: and the citizens, and you know, they got to fix that.

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Speaker 3: See, this is this.

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Speaker 2: Is what makes people take it in their own hands

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Speaker 2: and not even call the police. And now you're trying

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Speaker 2: to police your own house with with guns and you

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Speaker 2: you know, stuff that you shouldn't have to take care of.

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Speaker 2: That's that's a big problem to me. And I'm worried

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Speaker 2: about people taking, you know, taking into their own hands.

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Speaker 2: But look what youre up against. You don't know what

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get when you call the police.

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Speaker 3: Right. That officer is in jail, you know, waiting for

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Speaker 3: all that. Yeah. Yeah, and her family wants justice. They do.

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Speaker 3: They demanded as they should. They deserve that for sure,

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Speaker 3: as they should be a lawsuit as well out.

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Speaker 4: On the Yeah, I'm sure there will be I'm sure

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Speaker 4: there will be being that they've hired attorney Benjamin Crump,

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Speaker 4: you know, he is on the case.

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Speaker 3: He wants to. I'm sure they need to make.

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Speaker 4: Sure that the investigation is thorough, there's transparency, and there

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Speaker 4: is no cover up and not the gate. It seemed

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Speaker 4: like it was some kind of cover up because they

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Speaker 4: weren't honest with the family. Her son Sonya Massey's son

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Speaker 4: spoke about that about what he was told and the information.

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Speaker 4: So this goes back to as well with you look

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Speaker 4: at President Trump when they're talking about giving police complete immunity.

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Speaker 3: And all that. So you can't have that twenty five.

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Speaker 4: You can't have that, that project twenty twenty five, You

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Speaker 4: can't have stuff like that because we have to hold

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Speaker 4: the police department a law of portsment, accountable for actions

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Speaker 4: like that.

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Speaker 3: So no, no, no complete immunity.

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Speaker 1: But count for videotape though, thank god, because we would

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Speaker 1: have you know, had to believe what they told us

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Speaker 1: about this one if we didn't see it for ourselves

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Speaker 1: with our own eyes on tape. And they have to

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Speaker 1: do something about this.

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Speaker 3: They have to.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's great that he said, you know, we

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Speaker 1: failed and all that, the police, sheriff and all that

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Speaker 1: the sheriff, but come on This was terrible. This was

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Speaker 1: terrible to see her shot in the head like that.

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Speaker 1: It was awful over a pot of water.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this was awful. That's what you killed her over.

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Speaker 4: And have you guys been seeing on social media other

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Speaker 4: law enforcement, other police officers of all races coming out

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Speaker 4: saying saying that she should have not been killed, that

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Speaker 4: it's just it was all he overreacted to the situation

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Speaker 4: and took her life over a pot of water.

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Speaker 3: And I've been seeing that on my timeline.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys have been seeing it,

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Speaker 4: but other officers are speaking out about it too.

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Speaker 3: So and he asked her to take the pot off

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Speaker 3: the stove. He did. He did the police officer.

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Speaker 2: Imagine calling a police officer that comes to your house

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Speaker 2: that's about to kill you.

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Speaker 3: And the attitude that he had on camera was angry. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's had problems in the past too.

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Speaker 4: They said, he's had some issues in the past, So

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Speaker 4: this is unfortunately, it keeps happen happening to us. Like

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Speaker 4: you said, Tommy, it seems like it always happens to us.

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Speaker 3: It's just so sad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, guys, coming up next, we'll have more

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Speaker 1: of the Steve Harvey Morning Show.

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