Posted on 03/26/2019 7:39:17 PM PDT by blam
Tuesday at a press conference, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel strongly criticized Empire actor Jussie Smollett in connection to filing a false police report about an alleged hate crime.
On prosecutors the dropping charges, Emanuel said, This is a whitewash of justice. A grand jury could not have been clearer to the cost, $10,000 doesnt come close financially, but all the other repercussions of this decision made to me, where is the accountability in the system?
He continued, Mr. Smollett is still saying that he is innocent, still running down the Chicago police department. How dare him? How dare him? After everybody sawand I want to remind you, this is not the superintendents word against his. The grand jury, a sliver of the evidence, and they came to a conclusion as did the state attorneys office. This is not the superintendent and the detectives department word against his. And even after this whitewash, there is still no sense of ownership of what hes done. He says that, in fact, he is the wronged in this case. This is an unbelievable not just whitewash of justice. This is a person now who has not been let off scot-free with no sense of accountability of the moral and ethical wrong of his actions from top to bottom. I cannot stress enough that in a time when you have people bringing a moral equivalency in Virginia between bigots and those fighting bigotry, when you have a person using hate crime laws that are on the books to protect people who are minorities from violence, to then turn around and use those laws to advance your career and your financial reward, is there no decency in this man?
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I wonder what tv show or broadway show will hire Jussie Smollett?
Rahm is probably right on this particular statement but....
a broken clock is still right twice a day
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what’s significant is that we’ve just been lectured by Rahm about morality, ethics
what next? Obama/Soroz/Pelousy lecturing us about morals?
(well, Pelousy does it quite frequently, always 180 degrees off target, of course)
next, we’ll be preached at about peace and brotherhood... by Abbas/PLO/Hamaz, and we’ll be preached at about honesty by HilLIARy
The boy almost started a race war that would have resulted in at least seven Walmarts being pillaged and destroyed and he gets off by paying a ten thousand dollar bribe. That’s bull****.
Boy, you know you’re plumbing new depths when Rahm thinks you’re a snake.
I grew up there. EVERYONE has his job because of corruption, many have to kick back part of their salary to keep the job, and Rahmy is the dirtiest of all.
After the trials and suicides end, there will be a light bulb changer from Streets and Sanitation running the city, simply based on seniority.
Wow. Great post.
Rahman is positioning himself for a presidential run.
Take some comfort its not for the same reasons.
Rahm is pissed because Chicago’s his sandbox amd Hussie gave it a black eye that might have helped libtards but it backfired so spectacularly even the staunchest dems had to come out against the failure, something they dont like to do.
But Hussie doubling down after its clear hes lying makes it worse.
Rahm is against it because he cant find any defensible way to politically support it, and because he takes it personally.
We are against it because we just see it for the gross iniquity and travesty of justice it is.
Can someone please parse this sentence for me? I'm confused! It seems to be saying that Smollett has not been let off scot-free - but in actual fact, he has, hasn't he?
Regards,
LOL.
OK, once then in that case.
Rumor has it.....
Rumor has it.....
After Jussie has sex with his boyfriend what does he say ? “Smell it “....
Bravo.
I don’t believe for a minute he isn’t in on it.
He’s only distancing himself for political reasons.
Hello people? THIS IS CHICAGO!
I don’t believe for a minute he isn’t in on it.
He’s only distancing himself for political reasons.
Hello people? THIS IS CHICAGO!
You bring up a good point....this 2007 misdemeanor episode would normally have awaken a guy and reset his compass. In this case, twelve years later....he goes for massive repeat. If he gets off, I’d pretty much guarantee you that within five years, we see him in national headlines again and doing another false statement to cops routine.
The cops, after realizing it was all a hoax...should have started with a bill for false information to cover the man-hours they spent on this.
Decency, shoot Rahm he is one of YOUR people playing the game that YOUR people created.
Decency has nothing to do with it.
I don't think it worked as a distraction. All anybody is talking about now is President Triumph's vindication, and, if they are leftists, saying "it's time to heal and move on", while the rest of us are focused like a laser on the upcoming FISA abuse investigation.
Smellit is a popped pimple. Annoying, but not enough to forget about the coup attempt.
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