Top Chicago prosecutor taking heat for dropping charges against 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Kimberly Foxx, the first African-American woman to serve as Cook County state's attorney in Chicago, found herself under fire Tuesday after her office stunned the country by suddenly dropping all charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett.
There was no direct response from Foxx. Her spokeswoman, Tandra Simonton, insisted that the Smollett case was treated no differently from the more than 5,700 other “cases for alternative prosecution” that the office has handled in the past two years.According to the statement, it does not mean prosecutors had any problem with the Chicago Police Department’s investigation of Smollett, who told police on Jan.
Simonton’s statement came after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel denounced the Smollett decision as a “whitewash of justice” and Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said his department was blindsided by the move. The deal Smollett got “is available to all defendants; it's not something out of privilege; it's not something out of clout,” Magats said.Chicago news outletsFoxx made the call to Johnson after Tchen put her in touch with members of Smollett’s family, who said “they have concerns about the investigation.”This was before police began to suspect that Smollett had made the whole episode up.
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