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CHICAGO (FOX 32) - Chicago Police union attorneys say they will demand special prosecutors in battery cases against police where the charges are dropped or reduced.
The Fraternal Order of Police is sending a letter to State's Attorney Kim Foxx just six days after she dropped charges against a teenage girl in an attack on police. The incident happened at Marshall High School last month.
Police were trying to remove the 16-year-old from school after she was caught using her
cell phone. She bit one of the officer’s thumbs and kicked another other in the groin before she was tased.
The teenager was charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery, but Foxx dropped the charges. “This girl assaulted two police officers and now they're not charging her,” said Kevin Graham, Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President. “That's wrong."
Now, the Fraternal Order of Police is calling for a special prosecutor to step in, in cases like these. The union says the state's attorney has a pattern of disregarding the safety of officers.
In a letter to Foxx, the union attorneys say they will, “demand a special prosecutor in any case in which the Foxx administration drops or reduces charges in cases where officers are the victims."
The father of the Marshall High School student admits his daughter suffers from behavioral issues but added there is no need for a special prosecutor in this case because it was the police who were the aggressors.
"The Chicago police engaged in the situation, a matter that the public school should have taken care of,” said the student’s father. “Had the police not intervened with what was going on, they never would have gotten hurt and my daughter never would've got hurt.”
The state's attorney's office responded to the letter on Twitter by saying, “Aggravated Battery to a Police Officer was the most frequently charged violent crime against a person in the first two years of the [Kim Foxx] administration."
The spokesperson for Kim Foxx says their office has approved 96 percent of aggravated battery to a police officer charges.
It's sad that the FOP has to do this.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad but unfortunately it's necessary. If our sheriff had any backbone, he'd be taking a more aggressive stance on those inmates released on electronic monitoring. We haven't heard ANYTHING from him on this issue and the danger this program puts on our communities. Time for Dart to stop pretending to be the smartest guy in the room and remember he's a Sheriff, not a social worker. I don't think the county has the Public Guardian job title in their budget anymore. As for this states attorney, lets remember who advanced her career, especially now that early voting is in progress.
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When I look at the voting results in the 19th Ward I feel all hope is lost. From now on when a Proud Union Home member complains about taxes, crime etc...I will point blank ask them "Well ONLY one party controls our city, county and state. What party do YOU vote for?"
ReplyDeleteA side note New Murph: I was hearing that the Illinois State House wants to introduce a bill that would remove parental notification requirements for young teenager abortions! Please check this out and would love to see a post about this....maybe we can collaborate with others who are disgusted by this insane proposal. If we get out front on this maybe we can pressure our pro abortion "Catholic" representatives....Fran Hurley and Billy Cunningham and pressure our local churches to actually speak up about this.
ReplyDeleteThis issue will not be put on the back burner.
DeleteFour more defendants Wednesday had convictions for drug offenses wiped out, after Cook County prosecutors found evidence they had been framed by Chicago police officers under the command of a sergeant who was sent to federal prison for shaking down drug dealers.
ReplyDeleteAt a hearing Wednesday, a judge granted a request from Assistant State’s Attorney Nancy Adduci to toss the convictions of Jermaine Coleman, Jabal Stokes, Robert Lindsey and Germain Sims in cases that were based on arrests by CPD officers serving on a tactical unit headed by Sgt. Ronald Watts.
The exonerations come two days after the state’s attorney’s office dropped charges against 10 men who were convicted in cases tainted by Watts and his unit, which patrolled the Ida B. Wells housing projects. Watts and fellow officer Kallatt Mohammed pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2012, after they were recorded stealing $5,000 from a federal informant who was wearing a wire.
In a development that could indicate a new phase in prosecutors’ probe of dozens of cases involving Watts units, Adduci on Wednesday asked Judge LeRoy K. Martin Jr., chief judge of the Criminal Division, for permission to subpoena witnesses. Previously, the State’s Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit had power only to subpoena records involving the Watts’ cases.
How long before they get rearrested. Keep a look out.
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