One protest called for prosecutor Kim Foxx to resign. The other offered her support. Dueling demonstrations in Chicago debated the future of the Cook County state's attorney whose office dropped charges against actor Jussie Smollett last week.
Two protests in Chicago on Monday were held for and against Foxx, the Cook County state's attorney whose office dropped charges against actor Jussie Smollett last week. Foxx had separated herself from decision-making in the case in mid-February. She said she welcomes an"outside, nonpolitical review" of how the office handled the matter.
One activist, Ja'Mal Green, questioned where these protesters were during the shooting of Laquan McDonald or during other murders and serious violent crimes in the city over the years."It just shocks me that now we have a black state's attorney who has promised to reform the state's attorney's office, and she didn't prosecute a low-level felony on someone, that now we have this type of outrage," he said.
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