Lori Lightfoot and Kim Foxx receive death threats, Chicago man now faces hate crime charges

Christopher J. Tatlock allegedly emailed Foxx his intent to “shoot and hang” her and sent a similar message to Lightfoot.

Hate crime charges have been filed against a Chicago man who allegedly emailed a death threat to Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx earlier this month, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday.

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Lightfoot released a statement decrying what happened and hoped the incident could be one that the public could learn from. “We simply cannot lose sight of our individual and collective humanity. We need to model the behavior that we want our children to copy,” the statement read in part.

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