After O’Brien blames Foxx for killing of Walgreens employee, her campaign says rival is taking page from ‘Trump playbook’

The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | January 13, 2020 | Tom Schuba

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Pat O’Brien, Republican candidate for Cook County state’s attorney, blamed Democratic incumbent Kim Foxx Sunday for the fatal stabbing of an employee at a Walgreens store in Wicker Park, prompting her campaign to accuse O’Brien of “fear mongering” and taking a page out of President Donald Trump’s “playbook.”

Last Sunday, 18-year-old Sincere Williams allegedly entered the Walgreens store at 1372 N. Milwaukee and repeatedly stabbed employee Olga Marie Calderon, a 32-year-old mother of two who was killed, officials reported.

O’Brien said Williams was arrested in May and charged as a juvenile in a burglary at a Melrose Park gun shop, adding that he was released from electronic home monitoring just days before the killing.

“[Foxx has] given more legal protection and consideration to people that commit crimes than the people who are victims of crimes or potentially the victims of crimes,” O’Brien said during a news conference in front of the Walgreens store. “In this case, her failure to object and require the electronic monitoring may have cost Ms. Calderon her life.”

Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the state’s attorney’s office, confirmed prosecutors “did not object” to Williams’ release from electronic monitoring “based on specific information presented to the court.”

Before Williams was ordered held without bail Wednesday. Officials have also said Williams was a suspect in two recent robberies in Wicker Park, one of which took place at the Walgreens where Calderon was slain.

O’Brien called on Foxx to “explain her actions” in the murder case.

“It is the role and the duty of the state’s attorney’s office to speak for us, to speak for victims,” O’Brien said. “They have no voice. Ms. Calderon has no voice. She won’t be able to go back to her children. She won’t be able to raise them. And that’s on Ms. Foxx.

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“No decent, rational person should voluntarily live, locate a business or invest in an urban area controlled by a Democrat governor, a Democrat mayor, a Democrat city council and a Democrat DA.”

The exodus of families with children from big city crapholes has been massive since the 1960s. The only people left are thugs and stoned head-bangers, looking for pot parties.

The nincompoop yuppies moving into gentrified neighborhoods in big cities are our canaries in the coal mine. When we see these low-IQ morons bloodied or dead by the hundreds, it will be our signal to man the barricades and designate free fire zones.