Police are calling for Kimberly Foxx, the Cook County State's Attorney, to be investigated by the Attorney General for exchanging texts with one of Jussie Smollett's relatives to try to get the FBI to take over the probe as he wanted it to
The Chicago State's Attorney who tried to convince the FBI to take over the investigation into the Jussie Smollett attack at his family's request has come under fire from police for interfering in the probe and texting with Smollett's relatives about it.
The union which represents the police in Chicago is calling for State's Attorney Kim Foxx to face investigation from the Attorney General for her handling of the investigation.
Among their concerns are text messages exchanged between Foxx and Smollett's relatives.
One, written by Smollett's relative after Foxx told them she was trying to convince the police to hand over the probe, is of particular worry.
Smollett's relative, who was not identified when the texts became public earlier this month via a records arrest, replied: 'OMG this would be a huge victory' when Foxx said she was 'trying' to get it handed over .
In its letter to the Attorney General which was obtained by CWB, the union asks who she was working for and why it would have been a 'victory'.
'Victory of what? For whom? Why?' the union's president, Kevin Graham, asked.
The union says her recusing herself from the probe once Smollett was charged was not enough.
The Smollett family enlisted the help of former Obama adviser Tina Tchen (seen above with the couple in the White House) to try to get the investigation taken over by the FBI. Tchen got in touch with Foxx and then facilitated a relationship between her and one of Smollett's relatives
He went on: 'In order for Ms. Foxx to properly charge and try this case, her entire office should have recused itself and a special prosecutor been appointed.'
Their concern is whose interests she was working in when she, after being contacted by former Michelle Obama aide Tina Tchen, tried to steer the probe in the direction that the Smollett family wanted.
On January 29, Smollett claimed he was attacked outside his apartment in Chicago by two men who called him racist and homophobic slurs then fled.
He claimed in his first report that he did not know what they looked like. In his second, he said one was white.
The incident soon became public, Smollett won an outpouring of sympathy and the Chicago Police Department said it was
