Posted on 02/14/2019 1:26:36 PM PST by Red Badger
Chicago police today are questioning two persons of interest in the Jussie Smollett hate crime investigation, according to a department spokesperson. Both are African-American. Smollett, who police say “has been questioned throughout” their investigation is also being interrogated.
The persons of interest were arrested at O’Hare airport on Wednesday night, police said.
Smollett said in an interview aired on Good Morning America today that he believed the two persons of interest seen in the CPD images were the persons who attacked him. "I don’t have any doubt in my mind that that’s them. Never did."
TMZ reported that the persons of interest are an actor who has appeared with Smollett on Fox television’s Empire and a person who was traveling with the second actor. These individuals are believed to be the “potential persons of interest” who were seen in low-quality images released by Chicago police days after the alleged attack, according to a police spokesperson.
TMZ also reported that police used “rideshare and/or taxicab records” to track identify the “persons of interest” and to track their movements on the night of the purported attack.
Given the developments in the case today, CWBChicago is sharing the following tip that we received over a week ago. Parallels being revealed today lend credibility to some of the source’s information.
If the source’s information turns out to be reasonably accurate, it will mean that Chicago police have known the identities of the persons of interest and believed the case to be staged for over a week.
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Contacted for comment on details of the tip, Chicago Police Department chief spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi this afternoon said, "Can't confirm anything. We have active interviews underway."
Smollett this week turned over "heavily redacted" phone records from the night of the alleged attack. Guglielmi said the submitted documents did not meet the burden of a criminal investigation. Investigators already received Smollett's complete phone records via a subpoena served on his service provider, according to a source close to the investigation.
A source additionally states that Smollett downloaded his phone activity into a spreadsheet and then deleted certain phone calls. “He did the [detectives’] job for them because then they only had to focus on the numbers he deleted.” -----------------
Hat Tip to Velveeta........................
If proven to have been staged, Smollett’s career should be over. Well, it would be if he were a conservative.
Oh, God, this fake news is shabbier that Smollet’s fake news.
Give me a break.
Black actors who worked with the schmuck attacked him for being homo LOL LOL..this is some crazy ass love triangle gone wrong
Has the ‘sympathy for the black guy’ clock run out on this story yet? I guess we’ll know the day the Chicago po-leece admit it was TWO BLACK GUYS committing a FALSE FLAG as a MEDIA PRODUCTION aimed at getting PUBLICITY FOR HIS TV SHOW!
Persons of interest, since there is no such legal term, what the hell are they talking about. If they may have seen something but not involved, they are a witness. WHen the cop has the idea that “hey, this cat may be involved..” they are a suspect.
Person if interest is a meaningless term invented by the FBI when they were busy trying to frame Richard Jewell, the hero of the Atlanta Olympics.
This is complete cr@p. Fake news for extremely gullible people.
Looks like trouble for Jussie.
So called persons of interest are not arrested. You arrest and charge suspects after accumulating some verifiable evidence. Whoever wrote this srticle is an ignoramus.
would iike a source I’ve heard of.
Bump!
Lock him up! Lock him up!
This story is a complete cr@p sandwich.
I thought blacks using the n-word was’t racist.
speaking of hats, now there were no MAGA hats or ‘maga country’ comments. So who made that up? Charge them with inciting violence. Sooo done with these bogus I was attacked by a racist claims.
Kudos to the cops for working hard on proving this a hoax. They know it, and don’t appreciate being pawns in a race/political war.
Jussie, it’s not too late to hang yourself with that noose... Free yourself of the pain, spare the humility...martyr yourself for the GAY cause.... be a hero....
CWBChicago is legit.
He and Rob Elgas from ABC news Chicago as well as Rafer Weigel from FOX news Chicago have been the ones doing most of the reporting on this.
MSM will ignore it. Nothing to see here. The TDS lefties will only remember the first news flash headlines and continue to believe there was a MAGA lynching of a poor gay black dude.
It does say they were arrested at O’Hare airport, though I didn’t see anything about a charge, so call me skeptical.
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