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written just before Jussie was taken into custody, taxpayer-funded anti-Trump ABC in Australia shifted their reporting to the music & pop culture writer and continued to attack the President! they don’t name or describe the Nigerian brothers, so they could be white from all you’d know from reading this:

21 Feb: ABC: The Jussie Smollett case became a political tool before we ever really knew what happened
By music and pop culture reporter Paul Donoughue
At the beginning, it all seemed clear-cut: Jussie Smollett was a victim, and this was an example of the real-world consequences of a president’s divisive language...

Last week they arrested two men they suspected were involved...
By Friday last week, the men were released without charge...

Hate crimes are on the rise in the United States. More and more people really are facing the violence of prejudice, according to an FBI report released last year...
To suspect Smollett of lying from the get-go would have been a strange and dangerous precedent to set, as author Roxane Gay pointed out last week...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-21/the-jussie-smollett-case-became-a-political-tool/10828480

18 Feb: Reason.com: Robby Soave: Jussie Smollett Reminds Us That Some Hate Crimes Are Hoaxes—and the Statistics Are a Mess
As the investigation turns on the Empire star, it’s important not to confuse “reality” with “narrative.”
While it’s true that the FBI’s count of hate crimes rose 17 percent from 2016 to 2017, it’s important to note that 1,000 additional agencies reported information to the FBI in the latter year. It should go without saying, but as the number of agencies participating in the FBI’s count of hate crimes grows more numerous, the total number of hate crimes will undoubtedly rise. This does not necessarily mean that hate crimes are surging—just that the authorities undercounted them previously...

A few months ago, many in the media became obsessed with a figure from the Anti-Defamation League, which purportedly showed that anti-Semitism had spiked a whopping 57 percent under Trump. But part of that statistic reflected an increase in bomb threats against U.S.-based Jewish institutions perpetrated by just one person: a deranged Israeli teenager. Anti-Semitic violence, according to the ADL’s count, actually decreased 47 percent...
https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/18/jussie-smollett-hate-crime-hoax-empire

VIDEO: 18 Feb: Daily Caller: Reason Editor Explains How Hate Crime Statistics Are Misrepresented, Gives Shocking Guess On How Many Are Actually Real
by Scott Morefield
“If you look very carefully, it is easy to misrepresent them,” Soave continued. So, there was an increase from 2016 to 2017 in the number of hate crimes. If you look, it’s actually because more agencies reported data to the federal government. So just counting the issue more accurately will make it look like the problem is getting worse when really there were just fewer people participating in this scheme to count hate crimes than the year before.”...

Soave and Carlson discussed why a complicit media like to promote the idea of a “surge in hate crimes,” despite what often turns out to be a reality they would rather not discuss.

“It is so hard to tell what percentage of these kinds of things are hoaxes,” said Soave. “Often times they’re just not solved. When they are solved it seems to me from my looking into it, that a lot of the time it ends up being a hoax. That is just from which ones I see get solved.”
“Of the cases that have been solved, of the top of your head, what percentage would you say are fraudulent?” asked Carlson.
“It could be as many as every other, probably,” Soave responded.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/18/robby-soave-hate-crime-statistics/