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To: Saulamanca who wrote (21066)	8/16/2019 10:23:11 AM
From: Saulamanca	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49022

Kim Foxx and Friends FlorianSohnke May 28 · 8 min read Charming company you keep, Ms. Foxx. Not long ago, in Chicago, there was a time when a public official’s association with unsavory individuals or groups courted controversy, drew scathing and well-deserved condemnation from journalists, and stirred public outrage. However, under Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, the strict observation of the sacrosanct boundary which separates public officials and elected lawmakers from sordid figures has been discarded in favor of Foxx melding with a dangerous syndicalist society, the Windy City’s anti-police movement. While serving as Cook County’s top prosecutor, Ms. Foxx’s partnership with opponents to law and order is thriving, undisguised, seamless, and reciprocal. More troubling, Ms. Foxx’s failure to heed this once-sacred line is also frightening. By now, most of Chicago’s residents are familiar with the April 6 gathering convened at Rainbow/PUSH. An assembly summoned by the Reverend Jesse Jackson under the pretense of a press conference to show support for the embattled Foxx over her bungling of the Jussie Smollett case, Foxx took barely three questions near the conclusion of the engagement before being hustled from the stage. A meeting which was quickly revealed to be scarcely more than a damage-control exercise, Foxx stood motionless as a number of supposed clergy and elected officials were joined by a comical bunch of misfits and anti-police rebels engaged in ritual condemnation of Chicago police and the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). A clown-like event, following the grievance brigade of community activists maligning police, Foxx took the rostrum and demonstrated her method for defusing the budding scandal by dismissing any soul-searching for her missteps and merely finger-pointed and lashed out at her critics. Her temper flashing, Foxx later implicitly implied racism was behind the FOP’s call for her to resign. However, in the midst of the madcap scene, Continued