The Chicago Police union staged a protest outside Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s on Monday, demanding that she resign, and were met with Black Lives Matter protesters who were there to support hoaxer Jussie Smollett.
Members of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police had rallied outside the office over her decision to drop the charges against Smollett for staging a hate crime against himself.
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According to a report from the Chicago Sun Times, protesters from the anti-Foxx side were chanting “Foxx must go!” while the Black Lives Matter demonstrators were chanting “Racists must go!”
At Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Fox’s downtown offices supporters and those who oppose her are face to face. On one side “no justice, no peace” on the other “Foxx must go.” pic.twitter.com/lLLuQRL1H6
— Rachel Hinton (@rrhinton) April 1, 2019
“The conduct of her office from the very beginning of this cases was highly, highly suspicious,” Martin Preib, the FOP’s second vice president, told the Chicago Sun Times.
Meanwhile. the Black Lives Matter activists claimed that the calls for her resignation were over the color of her skin — not her seemingly corrupt actions.
Scene from @SAKimFoxx protests in Chicago #JussieSmollett pic.twitter.com/fFCLRUloaD
— Aamer Madhani (@AamerISmad) April 1, 2019