Kim Foxx ends necktie-cutting tradition among prosecutors, claims it might be associated with lynching – Chicago Sun-Times

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx speaks at a press conference at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse after a Cook County judge overturned the convictions of 18 men who had drugs planted on them by a rogue band of Chicago police officers, Monday morning, Sept. 24, 2018. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

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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debtsor
6 years ago

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.

Richard Poo Millersky
6 years ago

Black women shouldn’t wear White pantyhose. LatinX and White women shouldn’t wear Black pantyhose. ?

ConcernedExpat
6 years ago

They really do this? I saw them do this on “The Wire”.

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