Chicago police chief wouldn’t have arrested Jussie Smollett if he’d simply apologized

Nypost ^ | 12/10/2021 | NATALIE O'NEILL

[Sertorius]

Chicago needs help. This was December of the same year. Link is in the Smollet article.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/02/chicago-police-superintendent-eddie-johnson-fired-for-intolerable-conduct/

[colorado tanker]

This isn't as bad as it sounds. Anybody who has been in that neighborhood knew right away it was made up. There are hotels in there and restaurants I have used when there on business.

But because he refused to admit it was a hoax, Chicago PD wasted a huge number of hours investigating this. He could have headed all that off.

[blackdog]

Does Adam Schiff and Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Peter Strozk, Nellie Orr, and Jake Sullivan, get the same free pass if they just apologize? There is no difference in conduct.

[blackdog]

Smollets only crime was not using two FBI agents to beat him up, put a noose around his neck, and pour bleach on him.

[simpson96]

“...he told “Morning in America.”

Was Robin Roberts there? The one who ate up Smoelltt’s lie with a spoon, and fawned over him on-air like there was tomorrow? Was Robin there??

[Freee-dame]

Kamala Harris and Cory Booker were pushing the anti-lynching bill which passed the Senate at this time. After the Jussie Smollett hoax, the entire Senate rushed back to DC to add a statement to the “anti-lynching” bill that got the camel’s nose under the tent to add “gender identity” to the group of protected classes that could be the victim of a “lynching”.

I use quotation marks around “lynching” because the bill broadened the definition to include any person in a protected class who is assaulted in any way by two or more people (not in a protected class?). Rand Paul voted no, at least to one version, saying that it could apply to someone who caused a “bruise” to another person. He was mocked for this.

I found an article about the new law with about 100 comments. Almost everyone thought that the definition of “lynching” in the bill was the traditional one: a murder, especially by hanging of a person by a mob without due process. Instead, lynching has the new legal definition below.

After the Jussie Smollett faked incident, the Senate added part 2 as follows:

(1) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN. —If 2 or more persons willfully cause bodily injury to any other person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person—

(2) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, OR DISABILITY.— “(A) IN GENERAL.—If 2 or more persons, in any circumstance described in subparagraph (B), willfully cause bodily injury to any other person because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person—

[Pilgrim's Progress]

You mean I could have just apologized for making an illegal right turn at a traffic light in Chicago? If only I had known!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Since it worked so well for you, you could have worked your way up to larceny, embezzlement, extortion and maybe armed robbery. And then topped out with a race hoax.

[KittyKares]

I love how the Chief said Smollett “didn’t kill anybody. He didn’t blow up a building.” Are those the only two things he arrests people for anymore?

[alternatives?]

The problem is he incited people and other people were hurt. It is the flip side of “To Kill a Mockingbird”.

Maybe someday, someone will write a novel about the damage caused to an innocent white person caused by false charges of racism and pre-conceived notions of guilt based on race.

There is nothing new under the sun.

[Don W]

You seem to think that no cop anywhere has any discretion on any topic.

You are clinically delusional if you really think that way.

Get help.

[minnesota_bound]

Jussie Smollett was making $100,000 an episode on his tv show but wanted more money and a bigger role. He did not care who was harmed by his actions. He needs to be in jail a long long time.