Posted on 03/09/2019 4:49:23 AM PST by Magnatron
A grand jury's decision to indict Jussie Smollett on 16 felony counts was "outrageous," the defense lawyer for the "Empire" actor said Friday.
Such charges have never before been filed on a "victim of a hate crime," attorney Mark Geragos told anchor Anderson Cooper on CNN's "AC360."
“What is happening here is, frankly, a media gangbang of this guy of unprecedented proportions," Geragos said. "And that’s the reason I got into this. I’ve never seen a media pendulum swing more quickly and viciously and rob somebody of their presumption of innocence like this case. It’s startling the way people assume that he’s guilty."
The indictment released Friday details Smollett’s disorderly conduct charges for allegedly fabricating a hate crime in late January in Chicago.
Geragos slammed Chicago investigators, who he insisted did not speak to anyone at 20th Century Fox or from the "Empire" television series over Smollett’s supposed salary frustrations. The network had no comment Friday.
The lawyer also slammed the Chicago Police Department over alleged leaks to the media, saying “all of the information that was being leaked was false.”
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Shouldn't that be former "Empire" actor?
No, he may walk but he caused a real problem not just for the left itself (with a poorly-planned racial AND political false flag operation), but for future hoaxers that will be viewed skeptically as the “boy who cried noose”.
These stunts enthrall the hard left, but drive the remaining middle to the right. This guy pulled in more money per episode than most of us little people make in a year, and still fabricated a hate crime that should convince many that there will be no peaceful coexistence with both certain ethnic minorities AND sexual deviants.
The crime Jussie Smollett committed was not just a fake police report, it was a racial and bigoted attack against every straight white male.
Jussie’s crime was intended to format hate against a specific race and beyond that against a specific sexual orientation, male heterosexuals.
Jussie lives in a bubble where it is okay to hate white people. It is okay to hate straight people.
Jussie represents the new Hollywood. The Hollywood with a BLACKLIST. They not only do not want any straight white men anywhere near them, they do not even want straight white men to view their films.
I wonder how long before we see signs “NO STRAIGHT MEN ALLOWED” or “STRAIGHT WHITE MALES TO THE BACK OF THE BUS”?
“over Smollett’s supposed salary frustrations”
The idiot lawyer wants to suggest that Smollett’s salary frustrations are his “defense”, for faking a “hate” story????
No justice for Jussie?
“.....Boy, Geragos is really going all-in. Victim? ...”
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And lawyers wonder why they have a reputations as sleaze balls. Juicy juice is the one who committed the hate crime.
” “Give Juss A Chance”......”
Preposterous stories have that effect, Skippy.
If I were the lawyer, I’d go and convince the guy to confess to some mental breakdown and serious drug dependency....and hope that six months in some rehab program would be the judge’s outcome on this. You really don’t want to go off to state prison for six years.
If they did rough him up a bit, I’ll bet a dollar to a doughnut that the guys who were paid to do it enjoyed their jobs immensely!
“....Jussie lives in a bubble where it is okay to hate white people. It is okay to hate straight people....”
Uh huh.
His words, “I came hard at 45” are going to have a different meaning in prison.
He's not the victim of a hate crime; he's the perpetrator.
“What is happening here is, frankly, a media gangbang of this guy ..."
An apt metaphor ...
It’s startling the way people assume that he’s guilty."
Yeah, they're supposed to assume the fictional WHITE people are guilty. Don't they know that????
“Social Jussie Warriors”
They said he’s facing 48 years! DOH!
Smart A$$ Jussie Smollett simply shot himself in the foot trying to frame someone. Who else is to blame?
I’m not big on creating new laws but one may be needed in this case. There should be a law created that if a person was found guilty of orchestrating a hoax crime, they should be sentenced the same punishment as if the crime were real. The way things are going, unless the hoaxers are punished severely, they will continue.
As the police chief said, this incident could have caused a hugely dangerous situation amongst the local population in the form of riots and civil unrest. A powder keg.
He will not get a lengthy sentence. But he deserves whatever he gets.
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