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Heartless pigs murder Sonya Massey in her own home, after she called 911 for help

Sonya Massey in a graduation gown holding a child.

 

Sonya Massey and unidentified child.    Photo: courtesy of Ben Crump via AP

Sonya Massey was 36 years old, killed in cold blood by vicious heartless pigs in Illinois on July 6. The body camera video, released today, exposed the ugly lie these pigs told that she came at them.  Standing in her own kitchen, she did NOTHING except be a Black woman in America, and that was enough for the armed enforcers of this system to shoot her in the face.  Heartless pigs enforcing a heartless system.  REVOLUTION — NOTHING LESS!!

Bodycam video: Illinois deputy fatally shoots Sonya Massey, July 6, 2024. Credit: Forbes

In a speech from 2018, the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian talking about the murder of Ramarley Graham, also killed in his own home in 2012 said:

...in the way this country has been built, and for the powers that be in this country, the humanity of Black people has never counted for anything—they have never been valued as human beings, but only as things to be exploited, oppressed, and repressed. Six years later, and with cold-blooded murders by police continuing in an unbroken chain, I will say again what I said then: How many more times does this have to happen? How many more times do the tears and the cries of anguish and anger have to pour forth from the wounded hearts of people?! How many more times, when another of these outrageous murders is perpetrated by the police, do we have to hear those words that pour gasoline on the already burning wounds: “justifiable homicide, justified use of force” by police?! How many more?!

Ramarley Graham... Nicholas Heyward, Jr... Tamir Rice... Eric Garner... Darius Pinex... Oscar Grant... Manuel Diaz... Joel Acevedo... Laquan McDonald... Aiyana Stanley-Jones... Sandra Bland... Jack Sun... Renee Davis... Michael Brown... Freddie Gray... Maurice Granton Jr.... Harith Augustus... the list goes on... and on... and on—thousands and thousands, especially Black and Latino, and Native American.

And now, 6 years after that, we add Sonya Massey.  No more!!!

As Bob Avakian went on to say, "If this were the only thing wrong with this system, it would be more than enough reason to sweep it off the Earth!"

This is what is urgently needed—AND POSSIBLE.  Sweeping this system off the face of the earth through an actual revolution.  

Humanity can live a whole different way.  And in a future revolutionary society, the people's security forces will lay their lives down rather than risk the life of one of the masses of people.  We need and we demand: REVOLUTION, for a whole new way to live and a fundamentally different system.  There is the leadership to make this revolution.  There is a plan for this revolution.  And we are in a time when this revolution is more possible.  Get organized now for REVOLUTION — NOTHING LESS!

 

There is the potential for something of unprecedented beauty to arise out of unspeakable ugliness: Black people playing a crucial role in putting an end, at long last, to this system which has, for so long, not just exploited but dehumanized, terrorized and tormented them in a thousand ways—putting an end to this in the only way it can be done—by fighting to emancipate humanity, to put an end to the long night in which human society has been divided into masters and slaves, and the masses of humanity have been lashed, beaten, raped, slaughtered, shackled and shrouded in ignorance and misery.

—Bob Avakian

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