Kim Foxx assault trial takes a big gulp of drama: ‘outsized reaction’ or ‘outsized charges?’ – CWB Chicago

William Swetz, the man accused of backing his pickup toward former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and throwing a Big Gulp of root beer in her face during a roadside confrontation, quietly went on trial last month in Markham.
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Call my shrink
6 months ago

Kimmy now realizes how victims of crimes feel as the person she freed continued their reign of terror

Richard
6 months ago

So a protester can throw a sandwich at the Federal Ice agent and is not guilty but a soda is different? Hard to understand

Deb
6 months ago

The same week a couple was attacked and the woman lost her baby. The assailants were only charged with a misdemeanor. Why should a big gulp justify a felony?

Hello, Indiana!
6 months ago

Felony charges pursued by a woman that once termed thugs shooting it out at each other in the street during broad daylight “ mutual combat “ and pressed no charges. This Soros funded Marxist refused to prosecute any person of color during her reign of terror, “restorative justice “ term but certainly got worked up enough over a root beer.

Isn’t Illinois Fun?
6 months ago

This guy was egregiously overcharged solely because of her job at the time, and for the same reason was offered a horrible plea deal, and this is now wasting the courts time. That all aside, what ever happened with the domestic disturbance call her husband made. Was that all swept under the rug because of her job?

Leaving Soon, just not soon enough
6 months ago

If she actually feared for her life she would have been walking on the sidewalk. I am a walker, and I do fear for my safety and would never walk on the street.

taxpayer
6 months ago

Probably you live in a neighborhood with good sidewalks. Many of us do not.

The Craw
6 months ago
Reply to  taxpayer

Kim Foxx lives, and the incident occurred, in Flossmoor, Illinois.
Flossmoor has a median household income of $137k (compare – U.S.: $83k; Illinois: $81k; Cook County: $81k)
The town is 58% black.
Incorporated in 1924 the community has ample sidewalks EVERYWHERE.
Not excusing Swetz. He has committed a MISDEMEANOR assault.
Just saying Foxx has no business walking in the street.
And as a LAWYER, and the chief PROSECUTOR for Cook County, she KNOWS that she shouldn’t walk in the street.

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