Protestors in Waukegan, Ill., Call For Federal Probe After Police Kill Black Man

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Demonstrators during a protest rally Thursday for Marcellis Stinnette. He was shot and killed by police in Waukegan, Ill., on Tuesday.

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Demonstrators during a protest rally Thursday for Marcellis Stinnette. He was shot and killed by police in Waukegan, Ill., on Tuesday.

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Clifftina Johnson, Williams’ mother, told the station that she spoke to her daughter by phone Thursday afternoon after she had multiple surgeries.

«And I told her, ‘We are out here, Tafara, and justice will be served,' Johnson told the station.

Johnson said her daughter was shot in the arm and stomach, The Chicago Sun-Times added. According to Johnson, her daughter’s last words to Stinnette were that he would be alright.

«Her last words to her boyfriend were, ‘Marcellis, you gonna be OK.’ And he said, ‘Babe you’ve been shot.’ And then he said, ‘I think I’m gonna die,’ and she said, ‘No you ain’t, babe, we got God by our side,' Johnson said, according to the Sun-Times.

Demonstrators, some on foot and others in vehicles gathered at the intersection near the coast of Lake Michigan on Thursday to demand for answers and accountability in the shooting, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Clyde McLemore, a member of the Lake County, Ill., chapter of Black Lives Matter, expressed little confidence that the Illinois State Police will deliver justice.

«We don’t want the police investigating the police, he told the Tribune. «We want the Department of Justice coming in.

According to a joint report from WBEZ and the Better Government Association from 2018, investigators with Illinois State Police rarely find an officer at fault during police-involved shootings.