Hack State Attorney Kim Foxx Drops Charges Against Multiple Shooters, Says No Evidence, Here Is A Clear Video Of The Incident

After no charges were filed against warring gang members arrested and released following a deadly broad daylight shootout in a residential Chicago neighborhood, public quarreling between Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx continued into its second day Tuesday, as Foxx called a rare news conference imploring the mayor to avoid trying the case in the media and "tell the truth."

"I don’t usually do press conferences often," Foxx said at a press conference in Englewood Tuesday. "I find myself here today having to respond to a narrative given by the mayor regarding a case that is still under investigation. It was inappropriate. It was wrong. As a prosecutor, who understands the oath, and as a former prosecutor discussing the facts of this case in the press without the benefit of all of the evidence does a disservice to the communities who have been impacted by this violence."

"Our job is not simply to make an arrest but it is also to get a conviction," Foxx said. "There were statements made by the mayor yesterday regarding the evidence in this case that were simply not true."

Declining to discuss exactly which statements about the case were inaccurate, Foxx noted that Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan mentioned twice Monday that the evidence was insufficient for charges at the time on Friday following the shooting earlier in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. The shooting was captured on a city surveillance camera, one individual was killed and injured two others, who were among the total five brought into custody and later released when Foxx’s office declined to press charges.