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JB Pritzker said he hasn’t seen video of a Jan. 4 ISP 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.
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