By Dean Olsen. Ninth St. But he wrote in a Feb. The county remains committed to working with the community to strengthen policies to try to ensure tragedies like this never happen again. The killing of Massey, a year-old single Black mother of two children and someone who struggled with mental illness, thrust the county into the national spotlight as her death became part of the national Black Lives Matter movement and intensified racial tension in the Springfield area.
He has pleaded not guilty. Grayson was fired by the county after the incident. He has been denied pretrial release and is being held in the Macon County Jail in Decatur. The Illinois Supreme Court put the release of Grayson on hold while it considers an appeal of the Appellate Court ruling. Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump has represented the Massey family and has made numerous trips to Springfield to call for justice. When asked to comment on the proposed settlement, Hall, a Republican, said he had feared the amount would be even higher.
County funds have a record of being managed responsibly year to year, and one of the benefits of that is that we are able to establish and maintain reserves to cover situations such as this — a large, one-time expense outside the normal operations of county government.
The proposed settlement appears to be in the range of other such payouts in the wake of police-involved deaths of other Black people around the country. It was reportedly the largest pretrial civil rights settlement in U.
Carlock, 57, was a county jail inmate who died after a struggle with correctional officers in A Jan. County officials denied a Freedom of Information Act request from Illinois Times seeking a copy of the documents that officials turned over to the DOJ in response to demands by the federal agency.
