Empire 13

08/19/2025

07/23/2024

🚨‼️ Emergency Protest ‼️🚨
Sonya Massey was shot and killed by former Illinois State police officer Sean Grayson.

Sonya Massey called the police because she saw someone creeping around her residents! She called them for help!

After checking the area Sean Grayson and a second officer entered Sonya residents. In the footage, officer Sean Grayson and another officer speak calmly with Massey in her home when she goes to the stove to turn off a pot of boiling water they asked her to turn off.

She then picks up the pot and the other officer steps back,

Sonya asked “why you stepping back”

the officer responded “away from your hot steaming water,”.

“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” she says in response.

“Huh?” the deputy says.

“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” she repeats.

“You better f**king not or I swear to God I’ll f**king shoot you in the f**king face,” Grayson says.

He then draws his firearm and points it at her, and she ducks and says, “I’m sorry” while lifting the pot, the video shows.

“Drop the f**king pot!” both deputies yell.

Three shots are heard. After a few seconds of silence, one deputy says “shots fired” and calls for emergency medical services.

“Dude, I’m not taking f**king boiling water to the f**king head. And look, it came right to our feet, too,” Grayson says.

They keep killing us by the hundreds every year for decades since the start of the police force in America and every time we have to fight for justice to make sure justice is served! Share the flyer and pop out for justice for Sonya Massey✊🏾

07/10/2024

The city still has dilapidated areas from the mob that swept through more than a century ago, killing hundreds and causing economic damage.

05/16/2024

Let’s go!!!

Come out and join Empire 13 at the May Day Parade to support and walk with Congresswoman Cori Bush a fighter and leader for the people✊🏾 :Edit alert 🚨 The parade starts at 1pm not 9:30am.

05/12/2024

05/12/2024

Good morning, good people, if you all didn’t know, i’ve been working tirelessly for the past couple years now in making East St. Louis a better place to live, through my nonprofit. BuildN The Foundation- BTF. Well, this Saturday i’m hosting a cleanup at the 5th & Missouri Metro-link Station from 10am-12pm. No need to bring anything. Everything we need will be provided. Our children learn by seeing. So the goal is to allow our children to see what it looks like for us to come together as a community to accomplish a goal for the city that we all love.

If you’re unable to make it, you can still support by simply posting this flyer on your page. If each one can reach one we will have a great turnout. Thank you in advance