The Smollet mess.

[Ike Bana]

This is not going away in the politics of Chicago...

John Kass, Chicago Tribune: Kim Foxx plays the race card to save herself from her Jussie Smollett fiasco

From the article:

Foxx has issues with the FOP and the FOP has issues with her. These are serious policy arguments: Whether she’s eager to prosecute street crime or whether she’d much rather play social justice warrior and avoid prosecuting what she considers minor offenses.

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A city that voted in a landslide for an African-American woman, Lori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor and often a critic of police and police policy. And now these political actors are handing her a racial mess.

This isn’t about policy. This is raw racial politics, and everyone involved is playing for their own advantage. And at whose expense?

Lightfoot’s, and the people of Chicago.

No Cook County State's Attnorney in the last 50 years has been less eager to prosecute street crime than Kim Foxx. The reason why the FOP (including police superintendent Eddie Johnson who grew up on these streets) and Kim Foxx are at each other's throats started way before Jussie Smollett showed up in town. It started when the number of street crime cases brought to the State's Attorney by CPD officers of all colors that went on to be prosecuted by the State's Attorney dropped like a rock thrown into the murky waters of the Chicago River.