Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx claims Jussie Smollett sentence is 'mob justice' | Daily Mail Online
Kim Foxx was the first prosecutor involved in the Jussie Smollett case back in February 2019 She conferred with his family on how to get it moved out of the hands of the Chicago Police Department when investigators became suspicious of him
Foxx then recused herself from the investigation as charges became inevitable When a grand jury indicted Smollett on 16 counts of lying, she told her deputy not to pursue it and that it would be heavy handed The case was dropped and then taken up by a special prosecutor Foxx, writing an op-ed for The Chicago Sun Times, said the special prosecution of Smollett was 'mob justice' and that the system 'failed' Instead, she thinks Smollett should have been let off with the $10,000 fine he paid in March 2019 and 15 hours of community service
Letters from Samuel L Jackson, his wife, an organizer with Black Lives Matter, and Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition were among those read Thursday in the Chicago courtroom, where Cook County Judge James Linn ultimately sentenced Smollett to 150 days in jail for lying to police in what authorities said was a staged hate crime.
Chicago’s top prosecutor, who originally let Jussie Smollett skate on 16 felony charges for lying to police, called the prosecution of the disgraced actor a failure of the justice system and said he was the victim of “mob justice.”
Kim Foxx made the remarks in a Thursday night column in the Chicago Sun-Times published shortly after Smollett, 39, was sentenced to five months in jail for staging a hate crime against himself in a bid to raise his public profile.
“Just because we do not like the outcome should not mean we bully prosecutors and circumvent the judicial process to get it changed. Smollett was indicted, tried and convicted by a kangaroo prosecution in a matter of months,” Foxx wrote in the piece.
“Meanwhile, the families of more than 50 Black women murdered in Chicago over the last 20 years await justice
Weak bytch put fake cases on kellz to get clout off of
