Empire actor faked attack?

[RugersGR8]

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/20/jussie-smollett-video-shows-brothers-red-hat-ski-mask/
Video Shows Brothers Linked To Jussie Smollett Attack Buying Items Allegedly Worn In Assault
February 20, 2019 at 3:26 pm

 

[tRidiot]

"The white guy in the MAGA hat did it while proclaiming Trumpisms and yelling racial epithets". Now that's a new one......

There.... FIFY.

 

[Dr. HK]

America is so great that you have to have to hire 2 dudes from Nigeria to oppress you.

 

[okierider]

Most folks aren’t familiar with the Tawana Brawley incident.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley_rape_allegations

in 1988.
Tawana Glenda Brawley or Tawana Vicenia Brawley[1] (born December 15, 1971[1] or b. 1972[2]) is an African-American woman from Wappingers Falls, New York, who falsely accused four white men of raping her in 1987. The charges received widespread national attention because of her age (15), the persons accused (including police officers and a prosecuting attorney), and the state in which Brawley was found after the alleged rape. Brawley was found in a trash bag, with racial slurs written on her body and covered in feces on November 28, 1987. Brawley's advisers Al Sharpton, Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason also helped the case to gain prominence.[3]

After hearing evidence, a grand jury concluded in October 1988 that Brawley had not been the victim of a forcible sexual assault and that she herself may have created the appearance of such an attack.[4][5] Steven Pagones, the New York prosecutor whom Brawley had accused as one of her alleged assailants, successfully sued Brawley and her three advisers for defamation.[5] Brawley initially received considerable support from the African-American community.[6] Some suggested that Brawley was victimized by biased reporting that adhered to racial stereotypes.[7][8] The mainstream media's coverage drew heated criticism from the African-American press and many black leaders who believed the teenager and her story.[9] The grand jury's conclusions decreased support for Brawley and her advisers. Brawley's family has maintained that the allegations were true.

And instead of never hearing from Sharpton again he launched a career of spreading hate and discontent and flat out lies. POS

 

[TerryMiller]

Well, he is now officially a "suspect."

Empire Actor Jussie Smollett Now Classified as a Suspect in Criminal Probe

And so it goes as with many other hoaxes. Hopefully, he will now get to reap the rewards of his lies.

 

[tRidiot]

One story says the Nigerian boys were about to testify before a grand jury which would determine whether he should be indicted when his (Smollet's) lawyers called the D.A. and the testimony was halted. Some kind of deal in the works, maybe? Who knows.

The whole effing thing stinks, I wonder if he's going to be held accountable, or if they're going to make him pay a fine?

 

[TerryMiller]

Kind of an offshoot from the main story, but I read somewhere that the "Nigerians" were actually born and raised in Chicago, thus making them Americans rather than Nigerian.

 

[RugersGR8]

A fake hate crimes data base(from another forum):

http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/

 

[RETOKSQUID]

Shouldn't be any deals made. Damn sure wouldn't be if he was a straight white guy.

 

[MacFromOK]

How does anyone, with 1/10 of a brain think that they can get away with anything like this?

He's an actor.

Not sure 1/10 of a brain is required to play make-believe...