A George Soros-backed District Attorney is prohibiting her prosecutors from pursuing gun and drug charges resulting from traffic stops.
Kim Foxx, a Democrat (obviously), is currently the District Attorney for Cook County, IL, where she manages the second largest prosecutor’s office in the United States. It is one of the more diverse areas of the country, with only 40% of residents being White. A quarter of its 5.2 million population are Hispanic, while 22.5% are Black.
In an interview shared on social media platform X, Foxx expressed her reluctance to prosecute following traffic stops as Black Americans are more likely to be carrying illegal firearms and drugs than other ethnic groups.
“Doing these searches – searches that have a “disproportionate impact on Black and Brown communities” – that don’t net a public safety benefit, we should not do that,” she told ABC’s I-Team. Like most leftists, Foxx is deliberately conflating Blacks being convicted at higher rates because they commit crimes at higher rates with them being “disproportionately impacted” – as if cops are arbitrarily arresting people based on skin color.
Under Foxx’s direction, state prosecutors would be unable to pursue charges which are “solely the product of a non-public-safety traffic stop,” even if illegal weapons or drugs were found in the vehicle.
Indeed, Black Americans are more likely to own an illegal weapon, with existing gun laws reportedly to blame.
Many on social media disagreed with Foxx’s race-based policy, with one drawing an example to financial crimes which may impact wealthy, White Americans more than other groups.
Foxx is not seeking re-election when the county goes to the polls later this year. Some, therefore, warned the region against voting for another candidate who may try to build on her existing policies.
