Simone Weichselbaum is a national investigative reporter for NBC News, focusing on local and federal law enforcement issues. She previously was a police reporter for The Marshall Project, the New York Daily News and the Philadelphia Daily News. She holds a graduate degree in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.
In the nearly three weeks since an Illinois deputy sheriff was charged with murder after fatally shooting Sonya Massey, observers have questioned how and why the officer — who had worked for six law enforcement agencies in four years — kept on getting hired. Sean Grayson’s personnel files show a string of apparent red flags: He admitted to having two DUI arrests and being discharged from the Army for “misconduct, .” After one of the DUIs, a handgun was found in the car he was driving.
The Minneapolis Police Department stopped working with Campion in 2006 after police reform advocates complained that he exhibited racial bias toward minority candidates and that he was affiliated with a Christian nonprofit that promoted heterosexual marriage. Campion sued in federal court and agreed to settle for an unknown amount, court papers show. Campion did not return a request for comment.
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