Protests have erupted in a small Illinois town after 19-year-old Marcellis Stinnette was shot to death by a police officer on Tuesday night, according to USA Today. Tafara Williams, his girlfriend, was in the driver's seat of a car with Stinnette in Waukegan when the officer opened fire and injured both of them. Williams is in stable condition but Stinnette succumbed to his injuries on arrival to the hospital. "When I got there, she said, 'Mama, they just shot us for nothing.' My daughter said she put her hand up, and if she didn’t put her hand up, she said, 'Mama, I would be dead,'" said Cliftina Johnson, Williams' mother, after visiting her daughter at the hospital. The young mother of two is in critical condition but is expected to recover. Williams' family shared a video of her in the hospital bed with ABC7 Chicago, where she pleaded for answers on why she was shot. "Why did you shoot? I didn't do nothing wrong. I have a license. You didn't tell me I was under arrest. Why did...
