Posted on 03/26/2019 4:54:42 PM PDT by billorites
We didn’t exonerate him,” Cook County prosecutor Joe Magats insisted to a reporter about his decision Tuesday to drop all 16 felony counts against Jussie Smollett. That sure isn’t how Chicago police see it.
The “Empire” actor claimed in January that two Trump supporters had roughed him up while shouting anti-gay and racist slurs and “this is MAGA country.” Mr. Smollett was charged after a Chicago police investigation found he’d paid two brothers to stage the attack.
Incredibly, Mr. Magats says prosecutors stand behind the police investigation and original charges. Though there will never be a trial to get at the truth, the prosecutor notes Mr. Smollett will have to do community service and forfeit the $10,000 posted for his bond—a fraction of what this investigation cost Chicago taxpayers.
Rahm Emanuel isn’t buying any of it. On Tuesday the angry Chicago mayor, flanked by Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, accused Mr. Smollett of exploiting hate-crimes laws Ms. Foxx ultimately recused herself from the prosecution, but the Fraternal Order of Police has repeated a call for the FBI to investigate.
Whatever Mr. Magats may pretend about this being no exoneration, Mr. Smollett and his attorneys are claiming exactly that. Mr. Smollett asserted as he left the courthouse that he’s been “truthful and consistent” from the start, and he’s still claiming he was attacked by two people he was unable to identify. Mayor Emanuel and Police Superintendent Johnson are right. This deal stinks, and the city of Chicago deserves an apology.
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Who thought a gay black male celebrity could get a pussy pass?
I don’t care what the retarded, prosecutor said, Smellitt still tried to lynch and bleach a black guy. Letting him off with a ten grand bribe doesn’t change that.
The Assistant DA was interviewed on local Chicago news, he looked SCARED TO DEATH, he was literally shaking..and he said that the evidence clearly shows that Smollett is guilty..I think we all know what went down, the Obamas, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, they put the noose(So to speak) around their necks, to let Jussie go and to seal the case so no one ever sees a damn thing regarding this..that is what REAL collusion looks like
Sort of like Comey saying Hillary was guilty as sin but that no “reasonable prosecutor” would prosecute her. We got a lot of Glack-Gay-Connected Democrat Privilege going on.
If you want a glimpse into just what a completely RAT-Run country would look like, you only have to look to Cook County, Illinois! So all of you of low-intellect here, who “continually verbally relish the idea” of California breaking off into the Pacific, need to add in Cook County to your moron mantra if you want to get to the heart of the problem.
It’s who you know...Michelle Obama’s name came up as one who wanted to help....beer summit Chicago style....it’s a race thingy don’tcha know.
Shameless, brazen corruption - no way to hide it, they knew they’d get a ton of attention and they simply don’t care. I’d say Chicago and Cook County have entered banana republic status, but the reality is that area of the world has always been mired in corruption. JFK owed his election to that fact.
Trump ought to order a federal investigation and prosecution.
Gay and black privilege.
Only Trump supporters and associates go to jail.
I agree.
To what end?
The DoJ needs to be all over this.
More like the connection to moochelle.
much more likely.
and now he and lawyers are saying because it wasn’t true
and now the animals will run wild tonight because da man oppressed one of them.
Substitute Skillet and Trump in Emmanuel ‘s speech. That’s where this is going.
In your dreams sucker.
We need immediate federal prosecution for mail fraud. I do not understand any DELAY!! Where are the feds?
Bullshit, he's just as good an actor as Smellit........
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