No charges after Chicago gunfight because Kim Foxx says the shooters were "mutual combatants"

Wow. Shooting each other, except in cases of self-defense, is against the law, or so I thought, in Chicago.

Kim Foxx, the Cook County state's attorney, doesn't just need to resign but I suggest that her license to practice law should be suspended as well.

Oh, I'm not an attorney but I'm pretty sure dueling is against the law in Illinois too.

From the New York Post:

Prosecutors told investigators the allegations were dropped because the shootout involved “mutual combatants,” according to a police report obtained by the Sun-Times.

Lightfoot and several West Side aldermen also sent Foxx a letter asking her to reconsider the decision, saying the suspects who opened fire were not acting in self-defense while noting that the gun battle was caught on a police camera, WFLD reported.

“As a result, we simply do not understand the decision not to seek felony charges, like attempted murder, against the remaining two offenders who initiated the gunfight,” the letter read.

Lightfoot and the aldermen said the “brazen violence” needed to be met with “swift and certain accountability” or it would lead to more “lawlessness” throughout the city.

The gun battle took place on the West Side between two factions of the Four Corner Hustlers gang. Lightfoot's criticism of Foxx, who is close to her political rival in the Democratic Party, Toni "Taxwinkle" Preckwinkle, is rare--but much needed. Politically it's probably too late for the mayor. Even more than Lightfoot's weak approach to fighting violent crime, Foxx's catch-and-release so-called prosecution of criminals is a threat to public safety in Chicago and the suburbs. 

But the ultimate blame for this ongoing debacle in Chicago are the Cook County voters--not me because I voted for the Republican candidate both times--who twi Kim Foxx into office. You are stupid.