Protesters take part in the Million People March demonstration in London, Britain, Aug. 30, 2020. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of west London on Sunday in the Million People March to protest against systemic racism in the UK. (Photo by Ray Tang/Xinhua)

An African-American woman injured as police shot dead her boyfriend last week announced from her hospital bed Tuesday that she will file a complaint, as she challenged the official version of the shooting.

"I lost the love of my life and the father of my seven-month-old child" when an officer opened fire "while we had our hands raised in the air," said Tafara Williams during a virtual press conference organized by her lawyer Ben Crump.

America has in recent months undergone a historic reckoning with racism and police brutality, since the killing of African-American George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis in May galvanized the largest national protest movement in decades.

Since then, new shootings and incidents of police brutality disproportionately targeting black people in the US have repeatedly ignited fresh protests.

The shooting of Williams and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Marcellis Stinnette, took place on October 20 in Waukegan, a suburb north of Chicago.

An officer opened fire on the car Williams was driving, injuring her and killing Stinnette. The officer, who is Hispanic and has not been named, has since been fired.

Police have said that another officer first tried to investigate what appeared to be a suspicious car, but the couple fled.

The second officer then intervened, but the vehicle allegedly backed toward him and he opened fire.

Williams has said that she was smoking a cigarette in the car, which was parked in front of her home, with Stinette when the first officer approached.

AFP