Posted on 01/30/2019 3:47:57 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Surveillance video captured potential persons of interest in the attack on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett in the Streeterville neighborhood, Chicago police said Wednesday afternoon.
A community alert with photos will be released soon, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a 4:53 p.m. tweet.
At about 2 a.m. Tuesday, Smollett, 36, was walking alone in the 300-block of East North Water Street when two people he didn't know started yelling racial and homophobic slurs at him, police said. He told Chicago police that the attackers yelled "MAGA country," Guglielmi said.
Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. A dozen detectives are working on the case and have reviewed hundreds of hours of surveillance video, police have said.
The video shows two people walking in the general area of where Smollett was and does not show the attack. Chicago police said they would like to question the two people in for questioning.
Huh?
Chicago police said they would like to question the two people in for questioning.
Huh?
I question their motives.
So apparently just WALKING in the area at the time is now considered a criminal offense..notice, NO video of the supposed attack, because it did NOT happen
So the reported temperature was somewhere around -20 with wind.
Mr. Smollett was walking outside with his face uncovered? Had to be, in order for anyone to recognize him at all.
This story is just shot through with so much BS that nothing holds water.
Not at first.
His story changed.
I feel sorry for the police. They can’t come out and call the guy a liar...yet. So they have to go through the motions. ANYONE walking around Chicago that night would have ski masks on BTW...or have their face covered. It’s frostbite if they didn’t. Plus two people walking in the “area” of downtown Chicago isn’t rare. What counts STILL is no video of the attack and no indication that ANYONE was near the hoaxer.
LOL! Gotta keep the radical lib message alive or else they’ll be given the same treatment as The Covington teens. God help the poor people who walked past the security cameras!
I gather this might happen - though even a stretch there - to folks in the UK now; but here.... how is this even verbal assault, let alone a hate crime?
So, in the future many hundreds of full tactical, Mueller agents (ski masks so no ID) could surround a Trump rally and arrest everyone inside.
Considering it was 2AM and FREEZING..I would suspect EVERYONE walking around would be covered in protective clothing over their heads
If so, the top brass of the CPD is aiding and abetting a coverup.
Of be more interested in seeing the victim actually walking in the vacinity around the time... fact that doesn’t seem to exist (or at least not being reported) tells me more than anything
Wow! Stunning news! The Chicago police have found video showing two people walking in Chicago...a rare and suspicious occurrence.
We'll have to wait and see how this plays out.
The only way they could have recognized him was to have been in the subway with him when he removed his own hood, scarf and any other face covering. He was not running around in -20 with wind bare-faced.
Were they carrying bleach and a rope..because doesn’t EVERYONE in freezing cold temperature carry bleach and a rope
First clue, Chicagoland is NOT MAGA country.
Two guys walking in Chicago wearing MAGA hats would themselves have been victims.
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