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Should Protesters be Prosecuted? Foxx and O’Brien Differ

by Kiran Misra and Jim Daley October 14, 2020November 15, 2020

n December 2016, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx was tasked with leading the second-largest prosecutor’s office in the country. The first African-American woman to hold the office, she promised to be a progressive prosecutor, one of a wave of similar district attorneys (DAs) and state’s attorneys across the country. These prosecutors have prioritized reducing […]