Culture JDS Megathread - Jussay Smollett files fake hate crime report and doesn't get away with it lol

'Empire' star Jussie Smollett attacked in possible hate crime
By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...tertainment/jussie-smollett-attack/index.html

“Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was attacked in the early morning hours on Tuesday in what Chicago police are calling a possible hate crime.

Smollett was attacked by two people "yelling out racial and homophobic slurs" and "poured an unknown chemical substance on the victim," police said.

According to police, one of Smollett's alleged attackers also put a rope around his neck. Both fled the scene.

Smollett took himself to Northwestern Hospital and "is in good condition," police told CNN.

Later Tuesday, CNN's Don Lemon spoke to Smollett and a mutual friend who was at the hospital with the actor. Smollett confirmed the incident took place.

He was shaken and angry that an attack like this could happen. Smollett told CNN he fought back at the attackers.

"Given the severity of the allegations, we are taking this investigation very seriously and treating it as a possible hate crime," the police statement said.

Smollett has starred on Fox's "Empire" since 2015. He plays Jamal, a successful singer in the musical Lyon family. Like his character, Smollett identifies as gay.

"We are deeply saddened and outraged to learn that a member of our 'Empire' family, Jussie Smollett, was viciously attacked last night," a representative of 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a statement to CNN. "We send our love to Jussie, who is resilient and strong, and we will work with law enforcement to bring these perpetrators to justice. The entire studio, network and production stands united in the face of any despicable act of violence and hate -- and especially against one of our own."

A representative for GLAAD told CNN the organization has reached out Smollett to offer assistance and support.

"Jussie is a true champion for LGBTQ people and is beloved by the community and allies around the world," a GLAAD spokesperson said in a statement.

Anyone with information is asked to call Area Central Detectives at 312-747-8382

 

[boofit]

off to rehab it is then before the nationwide book tour starts

nah

 

[RJ MacReady]

They really have it in for him, all that fakery for fucking ass pats...really was worth faking that bs?

It would've been if it'd worked. His career would've skyrocketed and he'd be getting way more than a fucking salary raise on Empire. It's a mercy from God that he's an incompetent moron because as the hypothesising from internet randoms has proved there are a million easy ways he could've gotten away with this clean. And it's a double benediction that his spectacular failure will make it harder for (and discourage) other nobody celebs to try the same shit in the future.

Society dodged a .50 cal with this case.

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

A charge of felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report carries a possible sentence of probation to three years. Smollett already pleaded not guilty to the first disorderly conduct charge. He was taken into custody and posted $100,000 bond to be freed.

Experts believe it is likely he will strike a plea deal and potentially not spend time in prison.

If brother don't receive no jail, best believe we riot!

If the races were reversed and dude didn't spend time behind bars there'd riots. Woke Privilege is a harsh mistress.

 

[Slimy Time]

It would've been if it'd worked. His career would've skyrocketed and he'd be getting way more than a fucking salary raise on Empire. It's a mercy from God that he's an incompetent moron because as the hypothesising from internet randoms has proved there are a million easy ways he could've gotten away with this clean. And it's a double benediction that his spectacular failure will make it harder for (and discourage) other nobody celebs to try the same shit in the future.

Society dodged a .50 cal with this case.

Let us all learn from Smollett. If we are going to fake a racist attack, hire some white people.

 

[kcbbq]

The cynic in me keeps thinking that the only reason he's in any trouble is because he made the cops look foolish, not because he did anything wrong.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

The cynic in me keeps thinking that the only reason he's in any trouble is because he made the cops look foolish, not because he did anything wrong.

Haha, wut? How is him faking a hate crime making cops look bad? The cops knew it was BS from day one but had they had to investigate and take it seriously or the outrage from the SJWs could have fueled a rocket to Pluto.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

The cynic in me keeps thinking that the only reason he's in any trouble is because he made the cops look foolish, not because he did anything wrong.

I don't think he did, they seemed to think his story was nonsense from the start, they just had to find the evidence that proved it.

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

“I heard ‘Kiwi.’ And I don’t answer to Kiwi. My name ain’t Kiwi. And I didn’t answer. I kept walking. And then I heard ‘faggot Kiwi nigger.’ So, I turned around and I said, ‘Fuck did you just say to me?’ And then I see the attacker, masked. And he said, ‘This is flavor country, nigger.’ Punches me right in the face. So, I punched his ass back.”

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

Let us all learn from Smollett. If we are going to fake a racist attack, hire some white people.

Or Asians, either of us seem on the ball enough to actually get shit done.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

It would've been if it'd worked. His career would've skyrocketed and he'd be getting way more than a fucking salary raise on Empire. It's a mercy from God that he's an incompetent moron because as the hypothesising from internet randoms has proved there are a million easy ways he could've gotten away with this clean. And it's a double benediction that his spectacular failure will make it harder for (and discourage) other nobody celebs to try the same shit in the future.

Society dodged a .50 cal with this case.

+1, I agree. and the lawyer defending him could had used the Chewbacca defense.

 

[Solzhenitsyn]

In your opinion, Kiwis, which is worse: Smollet, or those journalists who wrote about how they actually wished his hoax was real so they could shit on Trump supporters more?

I'm leaning towards the latter, honestly. Smollet was a tard looking to make bank out of the current political climate. Those journalists are the ones actively bringing about and continuing that climate.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

In your opinion, Kiwis, which is worse: Smollet, or those journalists who wrote about how they actually wished his hoax was real so they could shit on Trump supporters more?

I'm leaning towards the latter, honestly. Smollet was a tard looking to make bank out of the current political climate. Those journalists are the ones actively bringing about and continuing that climate.

That's a tough question. Smollett is undoubtedly stupider and more pathetic in his lies. On the other hand, the journos cause a lot more damage.

 

[Pargon]

In your opinion, Kiwis, which is worse: Smollet, or those journalists who wrote about how they actually wished his hoax was real so they could shit on Trump supporters more?

I'm leaning towards the latter, honestly. Smollet was a tard looking to make bank out of the current political climate. Those journalists are the ones actively bringing about and continuing that climate.

Agreed on the journalists being the worse of the two, though the relationship is certainly symbiotic. These bad actors wouldn't crop up if they knew no one would cover them (or, if they did, that there'd be much more cautious and less biased eyes on them), and the journalists need bad actors, real and false, to prop up their narrative and sell ads.

All that said and while there's no oath they take journalists have a responsibility, and are answerable, to the public to report what is true. They have no business waiting in the wings to spin every non-event to their viewers and readers as the latest symptom of sociopolitical collapse vis a vis The Guy We Don't Like versus The Guy We Like. Journalism of every color has become far too politicized in the name of saving a dying industry without questioning why it's dying to begin with.

 

[MG 620]

I hope to fuck he does the maximum jail time, but I doubt it.

Yes. Of course not. He's rich, black and (in)famous.

 

[Belligerent Monk]

In your opinion, Kiwis, which is worse: Smollet, or those journalists who wrote about how they actually wished his hoax was real so they could shit on Trump supporters more?

I'm leaning towards the latter, honestly. Smollet was a tard looking to make bank out of the current political climate. Those journalists are the ones actively bringing about and continuing that climate.

I'm not even mad at the journos anymore. We all already know how slimy those guys get.

Where I draw the line is where all the twittards, who have all just been told Smollet set the whole thing up himself, say some exceptionally exceptional bullshit like, "I dont care that it was fake. This type of thing literally happens everyday. That it could happen means that it did happen."

 

[BScCollateral]

In your opinion, Kiwis, which is worse: Smollet, or those journalists who wrote about how they actually wished his hoax was real so they could shit on Trump supporters more?

"Worse than a journalist" is hard for me to imagine. It's Lovecraftian, really.

 

[kcbbq]

"Worse than a journalist" is hard for me to imagine. It's Lovecraftian, really.

It used to be "first thing you do is kill all the lawyers". But now we're seeing lawyers being important to keep the journalists in check.

When you've dragged your profession below ambulance chasers in esteem you've pretty much managed to accomplish the impossible.

 

[not william stenchever]

It used to be "first thing you do is kill all the lawyers". But now we're seeing lawyers being important to keep the journalists in check.

That it has been at least five years since I've heard the phrase "first thing we do, is kill all the lawyers" should be a sign to the journalistic profession.

Parents, don't let your kids be journalists.

 

[Water-T]

"Send journalists, guns, and money" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Agreed on the journalists being the worse of the two, though the relationship is certainly symbiotic. These bad actors wouldn't crop up if they knew no one would cover them (or, if they did, that there'd be much more cautious and less biased eyes on them), and the journalists need bad actors, real and false, to prop up their narrative and sell ads.

That's exactly why these journalists are objectively worse. People like Smollett would never commit these false accusations in the first place if they weren't endorsed and supported by a "listen and believe" attitude that eschews truth in favor of whatever immediately wins their narrative as many points as possible.