Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is exploring a policy that would direct prosecutors to reject drug and gun charges that stem solely from select routine…
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is exploring a policy that would direct prosecutors to reject drug and gun charges that stem solely from select routine traffic stops by police, a move that's being met with criticism from some officials.“That’s the kind of steps toward justice that we’ve been urging Kim Foxx to make for years,” Kobi Guillory of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression said.
The decision would rest on whether there was no other probable cause for the stop, according to the proposed policy.“What Kim Foxx is saying in her policy is that ‘we don’t care what traffic code people violate, and we don’t care what po’s find after,’” Tabares said. “Kim Foxx wants to throw out what officers find when they institute a traffic stop.”
Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly“If you don’t wanna get pulled over, just obey the law,” she said. “But Kim Foxx wants to instruct her assistant state’s attorneys to deny charges for crimes that are discovered after a traffic stop. That’s astonishing, because it seeks to dismiss evidence even when the individual traffic stop was lawful.
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