How Sonya Massey’s Death Could Have Been Prevented

Jillian Snider, a policy director on criminal justice and civil liberties with the R Street Institute and a retired officer with the New York City Police Department, said that in the Massey case, both deputies — Grayson and his still-unnamed partner — made errors during the fatal encounter.

“There are many agencies like the NYPD where we have this duty to intervene in training, and that was a post-George Floyd training. So if you see another officer doing something that you know is absolutely wrong, you are responsible both legally and departmentally to intervene in that situation, to try and diffuse it,” Snider told HuffPost. “We did not see that in this case at all, we just kind of saw this officer go with whatever Grayson was doing.”