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More ripples in state attorney's office follow Jussie Smollett case

  

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Via:  vic-eldred  •  5 years ago  •  11 comments

More ripples in state attorney's office follow Jussie Smollett case
Police allege Brown was aggressive, defiant and resistant to police commands to march peacefully, resulting in his arrest in which Brown kicked and punched the police officers. McKay tells Fox News he has obtained an online video that shows Brown preparing to potentially physically engage with police by removing his jewelry on his way to the protest.

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As embattled Cook County State’s Attorney   Kim Foxx   continues to stand by her office’s decision to suddenly drop 16 felony charges against actor   Jussie Smollett , three ranking staffers have now parted with Foxx including Chief Ethics Officer April Perry; the director of the conviction integrity unit, Mark Rotart; and the director of external affairs, Kiera Ellis. Perry and Ellis have not given exact reasons for their resignation. Rotart tells Fox News his departure was planned months ago.

Cook County Inspector General, Patrick Blanchard, is reviewing Kim Foxx’s office’s decisions during the Smollett case. Two separate petitions have been filed in Cook County for a special prosecutor to investigate the case, and President Trump says he’s asked for a federal review. And now, another criminal case that Foxx’s office is prosecuting raises new questions about Foxx’s personal and professional relationship with another alleged Chicago victim that her office might not be prosecuting to the fullest extent.

At an April 6 rally for Foxx lead by The Rev. Jesse Jackson at his Rainbow Push headquarters on the south side of Chicago, Foxx posed for at least one picture and stood alongside known Chicago activist Jedidiah Brown.

Foxx’s office is currently prosecuting 32-year-old Brown for allegedly assaulting Chicago police officers David Alvarez and Jeffrey Shafer while Brown resisted arrest in July 2018.

Following the April event at Rainbow Push, Brown posted this picture with Foxx to Facebook with the caption "Let the record reflect, I stand with Kim Foxx. Blue Klux Klan we aren't going without a fight you'll never forget!"

Attorney James McKay, who represents the two police officers who Brown allegedly assaulted, tells Fox News the picture of Brown and Foxx just looks bad.

“This is not right. The guy’s got a criminal case pending. A prosecutor has the duty to avoid the slightest appearance of impropriety. Not be with him. Period. It’s just improper,” McKay told Fox News.

McKay filed a petition in Cook County criminal court this week requesting that Foxx’s office be removed from the Brown case and a special prosecutor assigned. The president judge could rule on the petition as early as Tuesday.

McKay’s petition indicates that on July 19, 2018, Brown and a “band of protesters” did not comply with Chicago police officers’ requests to limit a demonstration they organized in the city to areas that would not impede with the flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic. Police say they warned Brown and his group multiple times not to interfere with traffic. The warnings were audio recorded and videotaped, according to McKay’s petition.

Police allege Brown was aggressive, defiant and resistant to police commands to march peacefully, resulting in his arrest in which Brown kicked and punched the police officers. McKay tells Fox News he has obtained an online video that shows Brown preparing to potentially physically engage with police by removing his jewelry on his way to the protest.

McKay says after Brown’s arrest, as detectives investigated, Chicago police held Brown on felony charges of aggravated battery against two on-duty police officers but high ranking members of Foxx’s staff showed up and rejected the felony charges police recommended — despite what McKay says is abundant amount supporting video evidence for felony charges. Brown’s attorney, Michael Oppenheimer, acknowledges to Fox News there is some type of videos that exist. Their exact content is not clear.

Brown was charged with two counts of lesser misdemeanor battery, one count resisting arrest and one count of obstruction of traffic, McKay tells Fox News. Brown’s assault charges are pending in Cook County criminal court.

Oppenheimer tells Fox News his client is innocent of the charges. “All the allegations in the criminal complaint, they are unfounded,” Oppenheimer said.

Oppenheimer says he can’t comment on direct details of the case but he is taking it to trial and says taking a picture with Foxx is not a conflict of interest. “I think having a photograph together with the State’s Attorney, lots of people do, it’s really not a conflict of interest. Kim Foxx takes photos with lots of people. That’s up for the judge to decide.”

It appears Brown and Foxx’s relationship might go beyond taking a picture and appearing together at Foxx’s April rally. McKay writes in his complaint that Brown and Foxx had a working relationship during Foxx’s campaign for state’s attorney in 2015. Fox News cannot confirm the exact relationship between the Brown and Foxx, however Brown is quoted in this   Al Jazeera  article saying “we worked hard to get Kim Foxx elected,” and Brown is seen in this  photograph  just days before the Kim Foxx event facing off with police at a police protest against Kim Foxx outside of her downtown office.

Fox News made multiple requests to Kim Foxx’s office for comment or guidance but emails and phone calls were not returned.


By  Matt Finn


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Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1  seeder  Vic Eldred    5 years ago

How blatant can bias get?

 
 
 
Ronin2
Professor Quiet
1.1  Ronin2  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    5 years ago

This is Chicago politics; which applies to their legal system as well.  

Chances are she has done other things before the Smollett case that escaped the national medias attention. She is under the microscope now, and seems oblivious- even as all of the top ranking members of her department flee.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.1.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Ronin2 @1.1    5 years ago
This is Chicago politics

Um-hum.....I do recall the 1960 Presidential election

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
2  JBB    5 years ago

If one terrible awful no good low down lie told by a second rate TV actor a while back out in Chicago still really bothers so damb much then it is probably best that you not even begin to think about all the hundreds and hundreds and thousands of much more significant greater yuge bigly bigger lies that everyone else in the whole world is really talking about today as were exposed by The Honorable Robert Mueller in the very enlightening and expansive report that he labored over for the last two years.. You probably have not read it yet, butt if big awful terrible wretched lies and the no good lying liars who tell them really do bother you so damn much then you had better buckle up your seatbelts because it is going to be a bumpy weekend...

 
 
 
KDMichigan
Junior Participates
2.1  KDMichigan  replied to  JBB @2    5 years ago

Unfortunately there are other things going on in life other than the Mueller report. We are very aware that the never Trumpers will be screaming at the sky for the next 5 years and that is there choice. The bottom line of the Mueller report was no collusion, get over it.

Whats sad is all the people being affected by the racist piece of shit Jussie Smollet so he can get a pass. He did get what he wanted though, before his fake crime I had no clue who he was.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
2.2  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JBB @2    5 years ago
If one terrible awful no good low down lie told by a second rate TV actor a while back out in Chicago still really bothers so damb much then it is probably best that you not even begin to think about all the hundreds and hundreds and thousands of much more significant greater yuge bigly bigger lies that everyone else in the whole world is really talking about today as were exposed by The Honorable Robert Mueller in the very enlightening and expansive report that he labored over for the last two years.

It is a lie that slurs millions of people by design. Now the evidence has been sealed and the liar is asserting that he told the truth. That needs correction.

As for you bringing Trump into this, he asserted his innocence over 200 times. As everybody should now know by now, Trump was telling the TRUTH!  MSNBC, CNN, Buzzfeed, the New York Times, The Washington Post and the network news misled us for two years.

As for the Mueller Report, it found no collusion after over two years and countless other investigations. The balance of the 480 pages amounts to an op-ed piece.

Now what was that about lying?

 
 
 
Colour Me Free
Senior Quiet
2.2.1  Colour Me Free  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.2    5 years ago
As for the Mueller Report, it found no collusion after over two years and countless other investigations. The balance of the 480 pages amounts to an op-ed piece.

Good point .. since the job of a prosecutor is to file charges or not file charges, the prosecutor does not exonerate anyone .. it is interesting how Foxx has stated the Smollet has not been exonerated, yet ALL charges have been dropped .. the Mueller report state that the report does not exonerate Trump .. yet NO charges were filed ….

You are correct, the Mueller report does read like an op-ed .. especially in the footnotes.  The House however is going to have / is having a field day..... I hope no one is expecting their elected officials to accomplish anything in Congress... between investigating the investigators and all things anti Trump .. 'We the People' will not be even thought of til election time 2020...

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
2.2.2  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Colour Me Free @2.2.1    5 years ago

Well said, my friend

 
 
 
Cerenkov
Professor Silent
2.3  Cerenkov  replied to  JBB @2    5 years ago

Massive deflection or advanced TDS? You tell us...

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
3  seeder  Vic Eldred    5 years ago

Activists should not be holding the position of State's Attorney. Ms Foxx clearly sympathized with the narrative Smollett was perpetuating about Trump, his supporters and White Americans in general.

Let's admit it.

 
 

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