Article Summary
- Gov. JB Pritzker said he hasn’t seen video of a Jan. 4 police shooting that left an unarmed woman dead after a traffic stop in a vehicle that was reported stolen.
- The St. Clair County state’s attorney declined to charge the officer who fired three shots at Rachel Tarrence, a mother of three, striking her twice.
- The investigation into the shooting was conducted by the Illinois State Division of Internal Investigation, and St. Clair County made the ultimate decision whether to charge.
- While he said he didn’t have the details, Pritzker said ISP’s leadership is “very high character,” and he expects the matter will have been handled thoroughly and transparently.
- While not commenting, Pritzker did refer to Tarrence as a “victim.”
This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story
Gov. JB Pritzker said he has not seen the video of an Illinois State Police trooper shooting an unarmed woman to death in January, though he reiterated trust in the department’s leadership on Wednesday.
“So, I have to admit that the details of the decision about that, I do not know. So, it’s very hard for me to have a reaction,” Pritzker said at an unrelated event in Chicago, though he later referred to the woman who was shot as a “victim.”…