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Cops Arrest 'Potential Suspects' for Battery ... Brothers Are Former 'Empire' Extras
TMZ ^ | 2/15/2019 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hatecrime; jussiesmollett; postedenoughalready; postedseveraltimes; racism
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To: dhs12345

maybe they self-identify as white? trans-race perhaps?


41 posted on 02/15/2019 3:13:54 PM PST by qwerty1234
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To: Secret Agent Man

He’s gay, so being screwed will make him happy.


42 posted on 02/15/2019 3:14:50 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Popman
I have admit those are the whitest black guys I have ever seen....

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.

43 posted on 02/15/2019 3:15:17 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: Secret Agent Man

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.


44 posted on 02/15/2019 3:18:23 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Jeff Chandler

Jussie mistook them for white guys.

Easy mistake.

It could happen to anyone.


45 posted on 02/15/2019 3:22:21 PM PST by simpson96
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Sunburnt Swedes.


46 posted on 02/15/2019 3:25:07 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: NohSpinZone

It’s the latter.


47 posted on 02/15/2019 4:00:47 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Being woke means you can be nasty, hateful and use and racist slurs yet feel morally superior.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The brothers aren’t going to take the fall for Smelley.

This is going to be fun!


48 posted on 02/15/2019 4:01:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: bgill

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!


49 posted on 02/15/2019 4:58:03 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: NohSpinZone

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).


50 posted on 02/15/2019 5:53:51 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: Roccus; Secret Agent Man

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.


51 posted on 02/15/2019 5:59:07 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: yesthatjallen

Here's another shot of the two pale-faced, MAGA whitey racist suspects, seen here from a different angle...


       

52 posted on 02/15/2019 6:01:40 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: Jeff Chandler

I think we know why the guy on the left in that pic is smiling...


53 posted on 02/15/2019 6:10:37 PM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“...models....”

Code word for queers?


54 posted on 02/15/2019 6:52:26 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: LeoTDB69
To tell a family secret, their grandmother was Dutch.


55 posted on 02/15/2019 6:52:42 PM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: sparklite2

#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.


56 posted on 02/15/2019 9:17:32 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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