This is interesting for two reasons: (1) the sources are the local ABC and CBS affiliates, not conservative sites; and (2) the witnesses are described as “non-cooperating,” which suggests that the police have some physical evidence - not just their own claims - which ties them to the incident.
Freeper servo1969 had a very clever insight about that:
************“Local crime reporters in Chicago claim the Chicago police were slow-playing the case to see if Jussie Smollett was telling the truth.
CWB previously reported that police already had Jussie Smollett’s complete phone records from the a tower data dump given by the phone provider.
When Smollett gave police “limited and redacted” phone records he downloaded on a PDF, all police had to do was look at the phone numbers he deleted — in other words, Jussie Smollett did the detective work for the investigators. “
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