Community outraged after alderman posts photo of severed human arm on Facebook

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WISN) – A gruesome social media post made by a city leader in Illinois has drawn backlash from constituents.

There was horror and outrage at the Waukegan City Council meeting Monday from the community and Waukegan Mayor Ann Taylor after a photo appearing to show a human arm showed up on Waukegan Alderman Keith Turner’s Facebook page.

“I literally, myself, almost passed out when I saw that picture, so I can’t even imagine what this poor mother went through,” Taylor said.

Taylor referred to the mother of Sade Robinson. Robinson was a Milwaukee woman who is believed to have been killed and dismembered after a first date last month.

Experts are still trying to determine if the arm found May 11 in Waukegan belongs to Robinson. Alderman Turner’s original post included a photo of a severed arm and a caption, but there has not yet been a report or mention from the administration if it was identified as Robinson’s.

“I was outraged like most people should be. All I could think of was this poor family and what they were going through as a mother and a grandmother myself. I can’t even imagine what they’re going through and then to have to see that, it’s despicable,” Taylor said.

The post has since been deleted.

However, Alderwoman Lynn Florian said the council has not forgotten. It would fall on the city council to censure Turner.

“I’ve already talked to some of my fellow aldermen and we plan to do that at the next city council meeting,” Florian said.

Robinson’s family called on Turner to be fired.

“I have been longing for my child in that moment when I saw her body again, should have been and only for my eyes and my family,” Robinson’s family wrote in a letter from their attorney.

Turner declined to speak at Monday’s meeting.

“Waukegan cares about them and that this is not something that the city supported in any way, shape or form. This was an individual,” Taylor said.