Black woman shot by officer seeks justice from hosp bed

During the gathering, Clifftina Johnson, Williams mother, put a megaphone to her cellphone as Williams passionately spoke to the crowd from her hospital bed as another relative at the rally held her and Stinnettes 7-month-old son

A Black woman who was shot and wounded inside a vehicle by a cop who also fatally shot her 19-year-old boyfriend on Satuday told about 200 people gathered at an emotional rally in suburban Chicago that she's fighting "to be strong" for her son.

The protest in Waukegan, about 64 km north of Chicago, was organised by Clyde McLemore, the founder of the Lake County chapter of Black Lives Matter. It took place less than a day after Police Chief Wayne Walles announced the firing of the officer who fatally shot Marcellis Stinnette, a Black man, and wounded Tafara Williams, 20. Walles added in a brief statement that the male officer had committed "multiple policy and procedure violations."

During the gathering, Clifftina Johnson, Williams' mother, put a megaphone to her cellphone as Williams passionately spoke to the crowd from her hospital bed as another relative at the rally held her and Stinnette's 7-month-old son. "Don't allow them to do this to us. No justice, no peace. I won't sleep until Marcellis gets justice. He didn't deserve it, and they waited for him to die. No justice, no peace. And my son don't have a father no more, but I'm fighting for him, and I'm in this hospital, and I'm trying to be strong," she said.

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. No other details, including the officer's name, were provided in the announcement.

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