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Jussie Smollett case: New surveillance cameras, footage found, police say
www.foxnews.com ^ | 02/05/2019 | By Samuel Chamberlain, Matt Finn

Posted on 02/05/2019 8:24:19 AM PST by Red Badger

Chicago police said Monday they had located additional surveillance cameras in the area where "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett allegedly was attacked last week.

Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the footage from those cameras was being "downloaded and reviewed." He added that two individuals seen in the area around the time Smollett said he was attacked -- and considered "people of interest" -- had not yet been identified "as homeless or otherwise." Guglielmi previously said investigators would go painstakingly through footage to reconstruct what Smollett said happened to him early on the morning of Jan. 29.

According to an initial police report obtained by Fox News, the 36-year-old Smollett, who is black and openly gay, told officers that he was accosted while walking to his apartment by two men who called him an "Empire f----t [n-word]." Smollett then said the men beat him and poured an "unknown chemical substance" on him, staining his clothes. The report said that when responding officers arrived, Smollett had a white rope draped around his neck, but the report did not specify whether his alleged attackers put the rope there.

The report also says that Smollett initially did not want to report the alleged attack, but his manager did so because "he believed it to be in the best interest."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: empire; hoax; jussie; smollett
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To: FreedomPoster

Yep, if he’s outed as a hoaxer, in cahoots with her campaign, SHE IS TOAST..................


41 posted on 02/05/2019 9:26:23 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Bon of Babble

Yep, theyre going to stage a re-creation of the event that did not happen.


42 posted on 02/05/2019 9:39:40 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: gaijin

I want to see video footage of his manager buying clothesline at a store.


43 posted on 02/05/2019 9:48:08 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Red Badger

“his manager did so because...”

...they could make hay out of it and take some conservatives down with them.


44 posted on 02/05/2019 10:22:45 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: euram

“as well as do some jail time.”

But that might be nice for him.


45 posted on 02/05/2019 10:26:19 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Would’ve been better if he tried this in a known Moslem town.

Wow, the PC fireworks and hand-tying. Would’ve been delicious.

(I won’t touch that “go ape” quote...)


46 posted on 02/05/2019 10:29:41 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Red Badger

He says he left the rope on so as to not tamper with evidence, he wanted the police to see it.

But this article said he wasn’t going to call the police, and his manager insisted.

Another article says he wasn’t going to call the police, and his 200 pound 60-year-old friend insisted.

In either case, if he wasn’t going to report it, why did he preserve “the evidence”? Was he going to just wear the rope for the next few days to make sure everybody understood?


47 posted on 02/05/2019 10:38:17 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Bon of Babble

Probably. If they can’t find anything they’ll bury it and then bring it up now and then as “evidence” that Trump supporters are racist.


48 posted on 02/05/2019 10:45:21 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: bert

Like the average commercial today where over half of them are black intact middle class families with a doting father


49 posted on 02/05/2019 10:52:47 AM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: Red Badger

I suspect they have footage of him putting the clothesline on himself and are holding on to it to get him to confess. I’ve always doubted that 60 seconds gap. It assumes he knew where ALL the cameras were.


50 posted on 02/05/2019 10:58:00 AM PST by StolarStorm
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To: StolarStorm

Yes, I’m betting he’s on video putting on the ‘noose’ and scratching his own face. The cops are just waiting for the right timing...................


51 posted on 02/05/2019 11:01:30 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: alstewartfan

No fair using the word “Fairy” in a sentence about Jussie./s


52 posted on 02/05/2019 12:58:53 PM PST by BatGuano
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To: BatGuano

At least it can be said for Jussie that he doesn’t have a *chink* in his armor.


53 posted on 02/07/2019 8:09:57 AM PST by alstewartfan ("If I should live to be seven I might forget Stephanie." Al Stewart)
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