The mayoral candidate who supported Kim Foxx lost.
Via Daily Wire:
Chicago’s new mayor, Lori Lightfoot, hasn’t even been sworn in yet, and she already has a top priority: figuring out exactly what is going on in Cook County Prosecutor Kim Foxx’s office.
Lightfoot, who won Chicago’s mayoral election by a near-50 point margin on Tuesday, is the city’s first black female (and first openly gay) mayor. She campaigned largely as an outsider to the Chicago machine. Lightfoot is, herself, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, who served at the head of Chicago’s Police Board and Police Accountability Board after leaving legal practice for public service.
Foxx and others had likely hoped the change in leadership, from outgoing mayor Rahm Emanuel to incoming mayor Lightfoot, might take some of the pressure off the prosecutor’s office, which has been under a microscope since dropping 17 charges leveled against “Empire” star Jussie Smollett for allegedly faking a hate crime back in January.
No such luck.
In an interview with MSNBC Wednesday, Lightfoot pledged to get to the bottom of the Smollett case, and suggested that Smollett needs to be “held accountable.”
“The State’s Attorney’s office here which made the decision unilaterally to drop the charges has to give a much more fulsome explanation,” Lightfoot said, according to The Wrap.