A cop shot Tafara Williams and her boyfriend, Marcellis Stinnette, during a traffic stop, wounding Williams and killing Stinnette.
Attorneys representing Williams called the officer’s firing “a first step in police accountability” but said they are pressing ahead with their own probe of the shooting.
Authorities have said the shooting that killed Stinnette and wounded Williams occurred following what they have described as a traffic stop. The officer who shot the couple is Hispanic and had been with the Waukegan Police Department for five years. “The firing of the officer involved in this week’s tragic and senseless shooting in Waukegan is a first step in police accountability, but does nothing to restore the life and health of the two young people involved,” they said in their statement.Williams was driving and Stinnette was a passenger in a vehicle that fled a traffic stop conducted by a white officer late Tuesday and that the vehicle was later spotted by another officer.
Clyde McLemore, head of the Lake County chapter of Black Lives Matter, is among those who have called for the video’s release and for a federal investigation of the shooting. He said the Saturday afternoon protest and march in Waukegan were planned to demand that a special prosecutor probe the shooting and for authorities to release the officer’s name.
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