An Illinois police officer who shot and killed a young Black man, Marcellis Stinnette, 19, and injured his girlfriend Tafara Williams, 20, who is recovering from injuries sustained last week during a traffic stop in Waukegan, Ill., has been fired. Ms. Williams is a Black woman. City officials are expected to release police video of the encounter by Thursday (article available here).
The officer, who was not identified, was a five-year member of the department and is Hispanic. He was terminated Friday night "for multiple policy and procedure violations," Department Commander Edgar Navarro said in a press release.
The Waukegan community has been holding demonstrations and demanding officials release more information since the shooting after a traffic stop shortly before midnight Tuesday. The city is just north of Chicago and roughly 15 miles south of Kenosha, Wis., where another Black man, Jacob Blake, was paralyzed after a police officer shot him several times at close range.