Petition Calls For Firing Elgin Officer in Fatal I-90 Shooting

ELGIN, IL — Hundreds of Elgin residents are requesting the firing of an Elgin police officer responsible for shooting and killing Decynthia Clements last year. A petition with 1,600 signatures, calling for the firing of Lt. Christian Jensen on "moral grounds," was submitted Wednesday to Elgin's city council, the Daily Herald reports. The petition was submitted two days after the release of the results from an independent investigation by Hillard Heintze LLC of Chicago, which determined Jensen followed the department's policy when he fired three shots at Clements on March 12, 2018.

Another officer simultaneously fired a Taser at her, and he also followed the department's policy, the report concluded.

The report found Jensen should have called an ambulance when he realized Clements was suffering a serious mental episode and also did not follow protocol by failing to provide medical help to Clements immediately after she was shot, the Daily Herald reports. The report also found Jensen turned off his body camera twice while at the scene of the standoff along Interstate 90 where Clements started her car on fire while she was still inside and then exited armed with two knives while surrounded by several officers.

The Cook County state's attorney's office has cleared Jensen of any wrongdoing, but at Wednesday's meeting, Clements' sister spoke up in defense of her sister and her disgust over Jensen's action, according to the article.

She said Jensen "got away with murder, as cops usually do."

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