Posted on 02/08/2019 7:18:33 AM PST by Red Badger
CHICAGO — Police said they narrowed down the type of rope “Empire” star Jussie Smollet said was placed around his neck during an alleged attack.
Police said the rope is similar to rope sold to be used as a clothes line. Detectives have identified local stores where it’s sold and are reviewing surveillance video from those stores.
At this point, police have not found anything that conclusively proves Smollett was indeed attacked.
The actor told police that two men seemed to know who he was before they beat him, shouted racial and homophobic slurs, and looped a rope around his neck during an early-morning attack in Chicago, according to a recently released police report.
Smollett told police that two men dressed in black got his attention by mentioning the name of the TV show as he walked downtown early on Jan. 29. Smollett said the more aggressive man wore a black mask to conceal his face.
Smollett, who is black and openly gay, said the men then shouted slurs, beat him in the face with their hands and poured an unknown substance on him that stained his clothes. He said the men tied a rope around his neck before running away, according to a brief police report released to the public following a Freedom of Information request by media outlets.
The report noted that the 36-year-old actor said he initially didn’t want to report the attack, but that another person convinced him to do so. The name of the person who encouraged Smollet to call police was redacted in the report, which notes that the person was with Smollet when officers arrived at his Chicago apartment.
When officers arrived at his apartment, Smollett still had a white rope draped around his neck. The report also noted that officers turned off their body cameras at Smollett’s request, something that crime victims sometimes ask officers to do, according to Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
No arrests have been made but police continue to collect and review surveillance video from the area and look for possible witnesses, Guglielmi said Tuesday. He said police are also going to stores to ask employees if they recall selling rope to anyone and to determine if security camera footage shows someone buying the kind of rope that was tied noose-like around Smollet’s neck.
“We are starting to search stores to see if any of this kind of rope was purchased in the area,” Guglielmi said.
Smollett went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital after being advised to do so by the officers, according to the police report. Police said he was treated for scrapes and bruises and released.
Smollett took officers to the spot where he was attacked and told investigators he’d received hate mail a week earlier. Police have said the FBI was investigating the letter, which was sent to the studio in Chicago where “Empire” is filmed.
Guglielmi said officers don’t yet have video showing the attack and are continuing to search for two men who were walking in the area at around the time of the attack to question them about what they may have seen.
Smollett and his family have defended themselves against allegations leveled on social media that he has been less than cooperative and changed his story. On Saturday, Smollett gave a concert at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, telling the audience that if he did not perform his attackers would win.
Supposedly they have video of his whole walk to Subway and back............................
First they sent him a threatening letter.
Then they were tracking him on social media to determine when he would be in Chicago.
Then I guess they hung out around his apartment hoping he would come out while no one else was around, hopefully late at night, so they could attack him.
Investigating clothesline sales? Boy, the Left is desperate on this one. I dare say they will come out with something “inconclusive” rather that admit it was a fraud. Wouldn’t want to make the twofer victim look bad.
If there were actually 2 guys going around doing this there’d be more incidents.
Or they knew where he lived and knew his habits which would be more of an inside job.
Either way it fails the smell test.
Dan Rather is to Buckhead as Jussie Smollett is to Red Badger.
I’m starting to look for your handle on anything Smollett.
One more important word...HARPO!
I angers me that this POS is getting away with his smears and lies.
I cannot wait to hear the wailing, moaning and gnashing of teeth of all the MSM, his friends and co-workers when he is finally arrested.........................
May be, but there is another more important word:
KAMALA...........................
They are BFFs....................
Was it a prop from “empire”?
There's a LOT of this going around since 2016!!!
Doubt it.
He probably bought it at the local hardware store........................
Interesting about the stained clothes. I am sure the police took his clothes to be examined as evidence, right? No? He wouldn’t let them?
Good on the MSM for following up with questions about the clothing stain evidence.
/s
Fortunately there is little crime in Chicago so the police can devote maximum resources to finding the Trump supporters who did this.
What if Jussie did not buy the rope in a local store? What if he bought it in a store some distance away? That could be a lot of store videos to watch.
True, but this dumbass ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.............
Even if there is video of this pos buying his own rope and bragging about staging a hoax , he can’t be touched. His intersectional score is just too high. Poc, liberal and gay.
Well we do know for sure he was at the Subway. Just spitballing here but I wonder if he could have got the bleach stain from the subway bathroom, often fast food joints keep janitorial stuff in the restroom for later cleaning. Could probably have gotten makeshift rope from there too
WON’T WORK THIS TIME...................
Good point!
Or a confederate at Subway to supply him.....................
They’ve probably checked already, but it would be interesting if Subway had video footage of the guy walking in nice and clean, hitting the men’s room, and walking out all bleached — just before going to the sidewalk to be “assaulted”.
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