How race, police and mental health collided in America's heartland
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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USA TODAY National Correspondent Trevor Hughes discusses what's next for the country after this summer's deputy fatal shooting of Sonya Massey.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:10.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, August 12th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.0 | excerpt. Today, what's next for America after Sonia Massey's death. |
| 0:26.5 | Plus Donald Trump's campaign blames hostile foreign players for a campaign hack, |
| 0:31.4 | and we take a closer look at Trump's tonal shift in recent weeks. |
| 0:35.9 | It's been just over a month since a sheriff's deputy in Illinois shot and killed |
| 0:40.4 | Sonia Massey in her own home. I spoke with USA Today National Correspondent |
| 0:45.2 | Trevor Hughes about how the community is coping and what's next when it comes to questions |
| 0:50.0 | about police, race, and justice in America. |
| 0:53.0 | Trevor, thanks for joining me today, as always. |
| 0:56.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:57.0 | So I want to just kind of walk through this tragedy chronologically, Trevor. |
| 1:01.0 | What do we know about the weeks leading up to the shooting and then what actually happened on the night of Massey's death according to release body camera footage? |
| 1:09.0 | What we know is that Sonia Massey was a longtime resident of Springfield. |
| 1:12.8 | You know, she had 600 members of her family. |
| 1:14.9 | This is a family with deep ties in the area. |
| 1:17.5 | She had some level of mental illness, her family tells us. |
| 1:22.2 | We're not sure what it was. No one really |
| 1:23.7 | wants to talk about the specifics, but everyone sort of acknowledged that she |
| 1:26.7 | did have some issues. And in the days leading up to this terrible incident, she had actually called 911 her mother |
| 1:35.2 | had called 911 she had actually spent some time in a hospital for some level of |
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