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Chicago police chief wouldn’t have arrested Jussie Smollett if he’d simply apologized
Nypost ^ | 12/10/2021 | NATALIE O'NEILL

Posted on 12/10/2021 4:54:15 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The Chicago police chief who arrested Jussie Smollett for staging a race-baiting attack on himself said Friday that he would have let the actor go free if he’d just apologized and admitted that he was lying early on.

Eddie Johnson, head of the Chicago Police Department in 2019, wouldn’t have pursued charges against the “Empire” actor if he’d simply admitted he’d made it all up, he told “Morning in America.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Illinois; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: apologized; becausebothareblack; chicago; heisnotsuicidal; illinois; jussiesmollett; nevergiveupthecon; police; smollett
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This is another reason Chicago is done.
1 posted on 12/10/2021 4:54:15 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I taught at a university in Chicago umpteen years ago. Haven’t set foot inside the city limits or for that matter the county since.


2 posted on 12/10/2021 4:57:44 PM PST by Maudeen (You are either one with God or one with satan. There are no fence sitters in Heaven. Choose Jesus!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Jussie's girl...


3 posted on 12/10/2021 4:58:53 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is that all it takes.....gee, officer, i sure am sorry. I’ll be on my way now.


4 posted on 12/10/2021 4:58:59 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Should be a class action defamation suit happening any day now.


5 posted on 12/10/2021 5:01:23 PM PST by Dogbert41 ("Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It isn’t up to Eddie Johnson who to decide to charge or not.


6 posted on 12/10/2021 5:01:25 PM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Smellit needs to be breaking rocks in the hot sun for what he did.


7 posted on 12/10/2021 5:03:24 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Apologized to who..the Chicago Police? HOW ABOUT MAGA SUPPORTERS EVERYWHERE who were accused of this nonsense..how about US? We are the ones who deserve the damn apology but we will never get one because Jussie Smollett is a sack of poo..he did this for two reasons, number one to boost his status as victim, and being a victim can make a person very wealthy, and secondly, he did it on the orders of Kamala Harris, yes I always believed from day 1 that she was in on the whole thing..she was the 1st to run to the cameras demanding her anti lynching bill get passed, she is close to the Smollett family, and Jussie refused to turn over his cell phone, emails, text messages..why, simple, he and Kamala communicated, he didnt want those messages to come out


8 posted on 12/10/2021 5:05:28 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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““When we arrested them and brought them in, when I saw the videos of their statements, then I could no longer protect [Smollett],” Johnson said.”

We have all seen liberal authorities protect liberal wrongdoers. It happens all the time.

We witness this on a daily basis and it has destroyed the credibility of liberals and the institutions that they have corrupted.

9 posted on 12/10/2021 5:09:58 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: ChicagoConservative27

One feature of a sociopath is that when they are caught lying, they double down. It doesn’t matter how ridiculous the lie, or the double down is, they keep going. They display outrageous emotions. The police chief was trying to act as if Smollett was a normal person. But, if he was a normal person, he’d have never come up with such an outrageous plan. The plan, I gather, was he was pissed off about not getting more money at his acting job, so he thought he’d generate such publicity they’d have to give him the raise he’d demanded. There are so many problems with that thinking, he must be a real head case to deal with. (The plan followed from a script he’d read.) My guess is he only had the acting job because he had connections with the Obamas and Opra. I never saw the show, but I’ll bet he was a bear to work with.


10 posted on 12/10/2021 5:10:30 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stir Crazy scene with Gene Wilder on Grossberger:

“Nobody has ever just sat down and honestly talked to that man. Poor kid.”


11 posted on 12/10/2021 5:13:00 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Like any Democrat - “Never give up The Con”...


12 posted on 12/10/2021 5:15:39 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I womder if thats the “celebrity special”, or if they would have done that for an average person making up such a story.


13 posted on 12/10/2021 5:23:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ealgeone

“I am sorry officer” worked for me every time I was stopped for speeding.


14 posted on 12/10/2021 5:23:47 PM PST by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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To: entropy12

Worked for me twice.

Only one ticket in 50 years and a million and a half miles


15 posted on 12/10/2021 5:32:24 PM PST by digger48
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Might of well asked a lefty for a kidney if you think the lefty would ever apologize for anything. The lefty is incapable of contrition, self reflection, or factual observation.


16 posted on 12/10/2021 5:32:32 PM PST by TonyinLA ( I don't have sufficient information to make an informed opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wasn’t he advised by Oprah or somebody ?


17 posted on 12/10/2021 5:33:10 PM PST by knarf (?<p>Little kids grow up to be adults that get into powerful positions and act out their thoughts.<pg)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Betcha a straight, white guy would not have been afforded that courtesy.


18 posted on 12/10/2021 5:38:09 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the left, truth is right-wing extremism.⭐⭐)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Special Ed” thinks HE gets to decide which laws get enforced. You have to be the systems attorney funded by Soros to do that!

Better stick to drinkin’, Eddie...


19 posted on 12/10/2021 5:41:50 PM PST by bigbob
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“Special Ed” thinks HE gets to decide which laws get enforced. You have to be the systems attorney funded by Soros to do that!

Better stick to drinkin’, Eddie...


20 posted on 12/10/2021 5:42:05 PM PST by bigbob
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