On July 6, Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old black woman in Illinois, was killed by a police officer. The episode was recorded in full on body cameras and prompted a response from vice-president and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, who called Massey's family ,and urged Congress to pass a long-stalled police-reform bill.
Massey's murder also raised the total of police shootings in 2024 to nearly 850, on pace to be the deadliest year for police killings in over a decade.
