Malachi Hill Massey, 17, center, speaks at a news conference, July 23 at the NAACP headquarters in Springfield, Ill., about his mother, Sonya Massey, who was shot to death by a Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy July 6 in Springfield after calling 911 for help. On the left is civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the Massey family. On the right is Sonya Massey’s daughter, Jeanette Summer Massey, 15.
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Sonya Massey said, ‘I rebuke you in the name of Jesus’ What’s the significance?
Massey’s words, said shortly before she was fatally shot by a deputy, have taken on a life of their own
As video footage of the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who lived in Springfield, Ill., circulates online, many viewers are memorializing her near-final words: “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.”
