Sonya Massey's mother pleaded "I don't want you to hurt her" in 911 call the day before fatal shooting
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The mother of Sonya Massey, the Black woman killed in her home by an Illinois sheriff's deputy earlier this month, called 911 the day before the fatal shooting asking for help for her daughter but told the dispatcher that she was worried police might hurt her, according to recordings released Wednesday by the Sangamon County Sheriff's Department.
"Please don't send no combative policemen that are prejudiced, please," Massey's mother, Donna, says in the call. "I'm scared of the police." Then she adds, "Sometimes they make the situation worse."
Donna Massey called 911 on July 5 around 9 a.m. to say her daughter was having a "mental breakdown" and needed help. "She is not a danger to herself, she's not a danger to me," Donna Massey says on the call. She referred to Massey's mental episode as "paranoid schizophrenic."
