Woman injured in police shooting says cops let boyfriend die
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October 28, 2020
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A woman who was shot by police last week in suburban Chicago said Tuesday that officers did nothing more than cover her boyfriend with a blanket after he was shot and left him on the ground to die.
Tafara Williams, 20, spoke to reporters during a Zoom call from her hospital bed as she described the Oct. 20 shooting in Waukegan that killed 19-year-old Marcellis Stinnette.
"They allowed him to die," Williams said. "They wanted us to bleed out on the ground."
In detailing what happened for the first time, Williams, who is Black, said she was sitting in her car in front of he...
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