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FOXX: "I am undaunted by the events of the last two weeks I am committed to serving my term and should the people have me continuing forward I believe that this has sparked a reason for us to have a conversation about where we really stand on criminal justice reform what we really believe when we talk about the rhetoric of a broken system and fixing it it means that you have to have fidelity to that and the efforts that I’ve had on criminal justice reform that were once celebrated by many in this county that are now being attacked because of one case in one celebrity I think we have to ask ourselves what is this really about [music] I’ve been asking myself for the last two weeks what is this really about and as someone who has lived in this city who came up from the projects of this city to serve as the first African-American woman in this role it is disheartening to me and to the women and men for whom I represent that there is not a place I go that I don’t represent for cabrini that when we get in these positions to somehow goals polls change somehow when you do the best and if you put our office on national standards there are people watching what we’re doing in cook county around criminal justice reform and yet and yet so I will tell you that this is personal it’s personal."