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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has ended a tradition among prosecutors in her office she believes might be based on racism and lynching.
For decades, to celebrate a prosecutor’s first guilty verdict from a jury, their necktie would be cut off and placed on an office wall along with a manila folder inked with the names of the prosecutor and defendant. Female attorneys would often cut off a piece of their pantyhose, as was the case with Foxx in 2009.
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
It’s not associated with lynching, that’s just stupid. But it’s a crass policy nonetheless. Putting someone in jail after a jury trial is not something to celebrate, it’s a somber event, an ending to a crime, for which there was a victim.
Black women shouldn’t wear White pantyhose. LatinX and White women shouldn’t wear Black pantyhose. ?
They really do this? I saw them do this on “The Wire”.