Posted on 02/15/2019 2:40:52 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Police have now arrested 2 men in the Jussie Smollett investigation -- 2 men with ties to "Empire" -- and TMZ has learned they were booked for battery. As we reported ... cops picked up Ola and Abel, their nicknames, on Wednesday night at O'Hare Airport.
A Chicago law enforcement source tells us the next step may be a lineup in which Jussie will be asked to identify the culprits. This raises a potential problem because, as we first reported, Jussie initially said his attackers were white and yelled "MAGA country."
The Osundairos, from Nigeria, just don't fit that profile.
As you know, Jussie has stated the men in the dark, grainy image released last month are definitely his attackers. Police are not confirming the Osundairo brothers are the men in that photo.
Ola played a prison inmate on season 2 of "Empire." It's unclear exactly how well they know Jussie, but we know Jussie follows their joint Instagram account. Abel also says he's worked on "Empire."
Both brothers describe themselves online as actors and models.
maybe they self-identify as white? trans-race perhaps?
Hes gay, so being screwed will make him happy.
I was going to say these are the blackest white guys I'd ever seen. We can meet in the middle... where Jussie seems to be.
These fakers and hoaxers tend to screw themselves because they overly embellish their stories to make the narratives more ‘juicy’.
Then, they have to manufacture evidence to support the embellishments.
Jussie mistook them for white guys.
Easy mistake.
It could happen to anyone.
Sunburnt Swedes.
It’s the latter.
The brothers aren’t going to take the fall for Smelley.
This is going to be fun!
Lemme guess, they were in whiteface.
Can’t you just see them now? This is going to be funny to watch.. How could these two throw racial epitaphs at that Nummy!
IMO, they want to wrap this up and get it behind them. If it means charging the two Nigerians so be it. Then it becomes the prosecutor’s problem... and he/she/they will probably not file for lack of compelling evidence.
Problem solved. (Politically speaking).
There is a lot of dis/mis information surrounding the story. Hard to know the truth. Apparantly it was not Jussie but the guy who was on the phone with him (his manager) who reportedly heard the attackers say “MAGA Country”.
Also, apparantly, the hats were red Chicago Bulls hats, not MAGA hats. But in the video pic they appear to be wearing hoodies over their heads, no hats at all.
I deduce from all the stories I read that they found the rope in their apartment. The discrepencies about their skin color and that he did not recognize them even though they work and socialize together still do not compute unless it was either planned together or for some reason he felt the need to protect them or shift blame on them for his own actions or something like that. It would be all speculation on my part.
I think we know why the guy on the left in that pic is smiling...
“...models....”
Code word for queers?
#13. And where is Paula Poundstone today? Doing one-night stands are local theaters including one near me.
Of all of HBO’s “Women (Comedians) of the Night”, she was the least successful (as versus Roseanne Barr, Rita Rudner, Ellen DeGeneres, and possibly Rosie O’Donnell.
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