Chicago
prosecutor who
handled Laquan McDonald case loses primary
CHICAGO — Voters ousted the
Chicago area's top
prosecutor Tuesday, backing Democratic
primary challenger Kim Foxx in a campaign dominated by questions about Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez's handling of the shooting death of a black teenager at the hands of a white police ******r.
Foxx, who had served as a former chief of staff to the county board president, was among the harshest critics of Alvarez over the
Laquan McDonald shooting. The teenager was shot 16 times in October 2014, an incident that was captured on
squad-car video. Alvarez
charged the police ******r with murder, but **t until **vember, more than a year after the incident and hours after a judge ordered city officials to release the tape publicly.
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