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Defiant Jussie Smollet says he will FIGHT the false police report charges over 'staged' attack
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 21, 2019 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 02/21/2019 7:50:14 AM PST by COUNTrecount

Defiant Jussie Smollet says he will FIGHT the false police report charges over 'staged' attack - as Empire producers consider suspending him, after security footage emerged of the Nigerian brothers buying ski masks

Jussie Smollett, 36, was criminally charged on Wednesday night in Chicago

He is charged with filing a false police report, a Class 4 felony

Police say that he hoaxed a hate crime assault on himself on January 29

His attorneys say he 'enjoys the presumption of innocence' and will fight charge

Empire's producers are reportedly considering removing Smollett from TV show

Brothers Ola and Abel Osundairo were earlier seen entering grand jury

Video of them buying ski masks and red hat day before the attack has emerged

Cops believe Smollett hired the duo to carry out a staged assault on himself

Charges carry a maximum sentence of three years and a fine of up to $25,000 FBI is also still investigating hateful letter that Smollett said he received

The Chicago Police Department announced on Wednesday night that the Cook County State's Attorney Office had approved criminal charges against 36-year-old Empire star.

His lawyers say he intends to 'mount an aggressive defense' against the class 4 felony, that could land him up to three years in prison if convicted.

Police suspect the actor, who is black and openly gay, staged a racist and homophobic assault against himself on January 29, which he claimed was carried out by white men who shouted 'this is MAGA country' as they put a noose around his neck.

As new of the charges against Smollett broke, Empire's producers were weighing whether to remove him from the Fox drama series, on which he portrays the musician Jamal Lyon, sources close to the show told Variety.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: COUNTrecount

Jessie is now mentally ill.
Jessie needs time to recoup.
Jessie will be fine.
Jessie must be free.


41 posted on 02/21/2019 8:32:59 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day.)
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To: Sacajaweau
He’ll take a deal....so it doesn’t go to trial.

Agreed, I only hope in the name of equal justice that he gets some jail time and pays back the costs of the investigation.

42 posted on 02/21/2019 8:33:13 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: COUNTrecount

I was thinking this morning that it is ironic the same lefty libs who were gullible and non-thinking enough to believe this Smollet obvious hoax also believe in the Global Warming/Man-made climate change hoax. And they back these lies with vitriol.


43 posted on 02/21/2019 8:35:30 AM PST by 444Flyer (John 3 Revelation 20 Joshua 24:15 Pick a side...)
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To: COUNTrecount; Fred Nerks

This is going to a jury trial. Watch as they load the jury with sympathoid women or sympathoid queers who believe that “Smollay” is a little “boy” who just wanted to live in a Utopian world where he gets paid a higher salary forever, where patriotic Americans and the rule of law ceases to exist. typical liberal fascist.

He got something new you see, it called “Black Privilege!”

My question is whether Smollett is hooked up with a network of race mongers who plan on pulling of these kind of fake hate crimes across America.That question must be answered , and soon. Maybe the Feds will find out.

If there is a network of many Smollett’s ready to do the same dirty, then we actually may have a chance of putting this little race monger behind bars. Otherwise he is not likely to see the inside of a prison. The Feds are on him big time and I hope they stay at it.

BTW the two Nigerian/American brothers were represented brilliantly by Ms. Schmitt, their attorney. She did an admirable job at saving their a$$es and putting the collar on Smollett


44 posted on 02/21/2019 8:35:43 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: samtheman

Why doesn’t it hurt the black community? With the “noose” he exploited that history far more.

The only gay man who has expressed an opinion on this hoax to me wasn’t buying it to start with but is also white and supports Trump. He can’t wrap his brain around the motivation.


45 posted on 02/21/2019 8:37:34 AM PST by newzjunkey (WALL or NOTHING)
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To: COUNTrecount

That clown doesn’t know The First Rule of Holes. Or maybe he’s waiting desperately for someone to yell “cut!” Of course, with prison time, he’ll learn a whole new rule of holes.


46 posted on 02/21/2019 8:38:04 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe #BuildIt)
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To: newzjunkey

The media in their infinite anti-wisdom (aka stupidity) has decided to make this an LGBT thing.


47 posted on 02/21/2019 8:39:41 AM PST by samtheman (How can there be so many brain damaged Americans?)
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To: Red Badger

I already posted that info.


48 posted on 02/21/2019 8:46:35 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: MrEdd

I sometimes have my own struggles in repentance, but as I read the scriptures it says in the last days men will not be able to repent.

He see quite a bit of that these days.


49 posted on 02/21/2019 8:46:59 AM PST by taterjay
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To: GOPJ
Don Lemon: "Not his fault — people were, I don’t what they were saying to him. Maybe because of his representatives, who knows."

Right, it's OK to lie and waste the CPD's time and money?

50 posted on 02/21/2019 8:47:42 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: COUNTrecount

Contrast Smollett’s arrest with Roger Stone’s.

Like night and day.


51 posted on 02/21/2019 8:48:17 AM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Do millions of White male, MAGA hat wearers have standing for a defamation suit? This was an overt attempt to defame and discredit all of that class.


52 posted on 02/21/2019 8:49:03 AM PST by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
I would love that...

It's not my fault, my manager made me do it.

-PJ

53 posted on 02/21/2019 8:50:28 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Well ... OJ was acquitted.


54 posted on 02/21/2019 8:51:08 AM PST by plain talk
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To: RatRipper
Exactly. As long as they spell and pronounce his name right its all good.

The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.


55 posted on 02/21/2019 8:54:35 AM PST by freedomlover
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To: 1Old Pro

The only thing that would hurt him would be money. If he gets jail time...it’ll be something stupid like 30 days.


56 posted on 02/21/2019 8:55:47 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: COUNTrecount

He’ll go broke fighting this unless maybe Blasey Ford send him some of her millions. Maybe Pelosi, Kamala and hundreds of others including almost all the media will pitch in for his defense? Maybe the Black Lives and LGBQRSTUV(...) will back his play so to speak?


57 posted on 02/21/2019 8:57:18 AM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: newzjunkey
Hasn't been a lynching since 1981...and the guy was dead before they hung him in a tree.

This was all on behalf of the legislation of his friend, Kamala Harris....making lynching a hate crime and federal offense.

But the a** screwed it up royally. Air for brains.

58 posted on 02/21/2019 8:59:56 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: COUNTrecount

Not that he did not do it, just that he will fight to get the best guilty plea he can for himself. This story was so obviously false than the gitgo that a seven year old would find it laughable. The media and politicians who had to be suspect jumped on it anyway promoting it as true figuring no one could disprove it and they could get away with playing their false storyline that there is a racist under every MAGA rock. They did not count on the stupidity of their “victim” sending hate mail to himself and hiring his buddies to stage the beatdown figuring it would simple be his word against everyone else’s.


59 posted on 02/21/2019 9:09:03 AM PST by chuckee
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To: Red Badger

60 posted on 02/21/2019 9:10:10 AM PST by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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