Chicago Police superintendent slams prosecutor's office again over Jussie Smollett case.
for faking a racially-charged attack on himself heated up again on Saturday morning when the city’s top police official took aim again at the Cook County State Attorney’s office.
Johnson and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel have Both Emanuel Johnson have repeatedly blasted the decision to drop the charges as politically – not prosecutorially – motivated. Saturday morning’s police statement followed an opinion column written by Foxx and published in the Chicago Tribune on Friday. “I believe based on the facts and the evidence that was presented in the charging decision made by this office, this office believed they could prove him guilty,” she said in an interview with the cable news network on Wednesday.
Foxx has been under extraordinary scrutiny in the past week for her office’s decision to drop the charges.
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