Jussie Smollett attack investigators withholding information til they have 'their ducks in a row'

www.foxnews.com ^ | 02/05/2019 | By Tyler McCarthy

[Red Badger]

As police in Chicago continue their investigation of last week’s alleged attack on “Empire” star Jussie Smollett, a Chicago Police Department official tells Fox News they are withholding some information in order to verify reports from people coming forward.

As previously reported, 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.

The CPD told Fox News that they are withholding certain information about the attack because more people are coming forward that “can be helpful” to the investigation. The CPD also tells Fox News that they are withholding certain information because they want to have “all their ducks in a row” if they open this case up to “interrogations.”

Regarding the account from a Smollett neighbor who claimed to see a “redneck” with a rope, the CPD official tells Fox News they could not find any surveillance video showing the “redneck” described, and that the neighbor's description of the “redneck” did not fit Smollett’s description of the reported suspects.

[Drew68]

Really getting tired of reading about this clown.

This asshole needs to stay in the news every day until the cops have either arrested someone (never gonna happen) or he 'fesses up to the fake hate crime that the whole world knows he committed.

The strategy now is to let it slowly fall off the radar. Eventually we won't be talking about it anymore and people will stop asking Smollett about it. Low-info voters will just assume it was an unsolved hate crime and Jussie Smollett will never be held accountable for this.

[Red Badger]

TWELVE Chicago detectives are on the case, and their boss is Rahm Emmanuel...................

[greenishness]

Had this terrible incident not happened to this man, I never would have heard of him.

[robel]

Maybe this will be like the mueller investigation. They all want it to be true, so they’ll have an endless investigation until they can prove it. Meanwhile, the media can milk it for all they can.

[Red Badger]

After this ‘terrible incident’ is over, you won’t hear of him again................

[Red Badger]

The Chicago Police Department doesn’t have unlimited funds and Carte Blanche permission to investigate a fraud for years..................

[Steve_Seattle]

Not much has been said about the anti-gay letter that Smollett allegedly received a week before the incident. (I saw a photo of it in one article, and it was much like the letter in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - largely consisting of words taken from newspaper or magazine clippings.)

To me, the existence of the letter raised the slim possibility that someone was indeed stalking Smollett in particular, and that the attack wasn't a chance encounter.

I think that "getting our ducks in a row" includes analyzing that letter, and if they can trace it to Smollett himself, he's toast. It's also possible that the letter and the attack are unrelated, or that the letter inspired Smollett to fake the attack.

[Red Badger]

The letter has been traced to a Post Office in SW Chicago, not exactly a ‘redneck’ stronghold..................

[RedMonqey]

"I find it hard to believe, that two bigoted attackers were out on a cold night, with bleach and rope, on the off chance they encounter an actor they hate”



It was landry night and their "sheets” needed washing.

[Steve_Seattle]

"The letter has been traced to a Post Office in SW Chicago, not exactly a ‘redneck’ stronghold...............…"

Maybe it was sent by some "Black Israelites" like the kind who hurled gay slurs at the Covington students in DC (and which the media did not report).

[Fred911]

Just curious ...anyone hear from Tawana Brawley lately? I feel sorry for Juicy, I think he is being “minipsinated”....noam sayin?

[magna carta]

bingo

[Revolutionary]

They just can not stand that there is no racism on the right. So they have to create it with fake claims.

[Pining_4_TX]

I love his blog! I am amazed that they haven’t found a way to shut it down yet.

BTW, anybody want to guess how many white people have been assaulted or murdered by blacks or Hispanics in recent months? That is never reported.

[Vehmgericht]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.” The facts are irrelevant.

[Pining_4_TX]

She is one spooky nut case. I can see her and Liz Warren sending conservatives to re-education camps for the good of the state.

[M Kehoe]

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a hoax.

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