Posted on 02/07/2019 1:59:46 PM PST by Red Badger
CHICAGO (CBS) — Jussie Smollett is reportedly back in Chicago on the set of Empire. Published reports say he shot scenes for one of the final episodes of the season and read lines with a cast member.
Security was present the entire time.
A publicist would not confirm if Smollett was back at work in Chicago after flying back Sunday after his weekend concert in West Hollywood.
Smollett told the crowd gathered to hear him perform that he fought the two men he claims attacked him in Streeterville last week.
The actor, who is gay, says the pair taunted him with homophobic and racial slurs. Smollett also claims the men put a rope around his neck and doused him with a liquid that sources say appears to have been bleach.
Police say they’re trying to determine the origin of the rope that was used in the alleged attack. Detectives are looking into where it came from or where it may have been purchased.
A Chicago police official who has viewed tapes, says there is video from inside the building where Smollett lives, showing the actor entering with what appears to be a noose around his neck.
Police say they’re still following up on leads but have found nothing new to report from additional video they got over weekend from the hotel and apartment building where Smollett lives, video from another hotel nearby and traffic cameras in the area.
Chicago police released surveillance of images of two people of interest but have not been able to identify them.
The alleged attack has not been seen on any surveillance video so far.
Chicago police say detectives continue to investigate and as of yet have not asked the actor to meet for an additional interview.
Indian Hemp
Mexican Hemp........................
It came from his closet
Wonder if the cops can find proof that Smollett bought the rope himself
He lied about the whole thing. He got beat up by a male prostitute or the dude selling him drugs, and he’s attempting to cover it up!
Anyone who didn’t know on Day 1 (Day 2 at the latest) that this is a hoax is a mental defective.
Wish these Chiacgo cops had been in charge of the Hillary investigation. They seem to actually be very thorough and willing to go where the evidence takes them rather than following the FBI standard process of shaping the investigation to obtain a pre-ordained outcome.
Juicy stole somebody’s clothesline.
Why Juicy need all this attention?
She going to the AIDS clinic without no insurance?
Chicago police say detectives continue to investigate “
Chicago has how many unsolved murders?
Or the Kinky Gay Guy who he had tie him up in Master Slave Roleplay
What a waste. At one point they had a dozen detectives on this farce. They know how long it takes to get from the point he was last seen on one camera to where he shows up on the next one, and I bet it takes about a minute, the exact time he’s off camera.
If they don’t already have his phones records and his managers, I can see why there are so many unsolved homicides.
He did, he fought them crackers and saved his sammich and took the clothesline away from them.
He's pretty much like Rambo only gay. And fake.
If somebody shined an Ultraviolet light on him, he'd light up like a semen-spattered Christmas tree.
Now the cops want to broom the case because the alternative is for them to name this twit as the suspect in his own hate crime, then the cops will be labeled homophobic
It was part of the “David Carradine Macrame Kit”
Obama would have involved the FBI by now, investigating every white guy in the area.
A friend of mine’s son is a Chicago cop assigned in that area, he said it’s total BS. The area is saturated with security cameras and they can’t find any footage of anything happening along the route this guy walked home. They have footage of him, but that it. My friends son also told his dad, if this was a fake crime the CPD are going to go after him.
And here I was thinking Brian Williams was the ultimate badass. Move over for Jussie!
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