Posted on 02/14/2019 9:04:04 AM PST by Red Badger
Chicago Police said Thursday they are questioning two “persons of interest” who were in the area where actor Jussie Smollett reported being attacked last month.
The two were found through “meticulous investigation,” CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
“The people of interest are alleged to be in the area where a crime was reported. They are not considered suspects at this time as they are currently being questioned by detectives. We remain in communication with the alleged victim,” Guglielmi tweeted.
Smollett, an actor on show “Empire,” filmed in Chicago, has been responding to critics who question his report about being attacked. He told police two masked men shouted racial and homophobic slurs at him, attacked him and put a rope around his neck early on Jan. 29. The 36-year-old actor is black and openly gay.
Smollett tells ABC News it’s “ridiculous” to think he’d lie in his explanation for being outside at 2 a.m. in frigid Chicago weather.
He says he left the rope and clothes on when police arrived “because I wanted them to see.” He says accusations that the attack was a date gone bad are offensive.
No arrests have been made. Police say they’ve not found surveillance video that shows the attack but that the investigation is ongoing.
When I was growing up in Mass, my family had a body shop in Lawrence, which in the 80s looked like Beirut with buildings, it was rough as hell. Our place was vandalized, robbed broken into regularly in the summer.
Come winter we never had a problem. I’m not saying I know the attack didnt happen, but troublemakers dont bother with attacks in subzero temps. They like to be warm with everyone else
Next day they changed it to ‘bruised rib’....................
Falsely claiming you were attacked by Trump supporting racists in order to get attention and whip up racial and political animosity is offensive to >300 million Americans.
I'm going to borrow that for use elsewhere.
It’s free. Others are using it on twitter, also.
It’s mine but, if it creates Splody heads, I’m happy.
It can be checked out at Hey Jackass
He was out looking for a "foot long" - and not the kind they sell at Subway.
Having spent much of my life born, raised and living in Chicagoland...observations:
1. Nothing in Chicago is meticulous.
2. Nowhere in Chicago is it MAGAland.
Question:
The ‘threatening letters’ were traced to a Post Office in SW Chicago. I assume they read the postmark (!).
What kind of area is that? Black, white, mixed, rich, poor, middle class, drug war zone?................
Must have gotten the ‘combo’ meal....................
Looset Goosey Juicy Fruit.
Color? Gender (meaning what shade of They they are:-)?
There are 245 different genders, or so the libs tell us.........................
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