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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Matthew Hendrickson

Attorney accuses Cook County judge of making racist comments in domestic abuse case

Judge William Hooks poses for a portrait in his office on May 28, 2021 at the the Leighton Criminal Courthouse. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

A Cook County judge is accused of making racist comments while meeting with an Arab American lawyer in the judge’s chambers earlier this year.

In a motion to have the judge replaced, attorney Matthew Fakhoury said Judge Williams Hooks “stereotypically” commented about people accused of domestic violence and said “Middle Eastern men are also controlling and abusive.”

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