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

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Man...

This guy is a terrible actor!! If you cant even make up a decent lie regarding a hate crime, you really shouldn't be on television.

 

[Arachnomatricide]

No explanation for this makes sense to me. The closest I can come to that makes sense is he got really drunk, injured himself, got embarrassed, lied, and dug in deeper. Or maybe an Ambien trip, haha. It's too cold for muggers or for MAGA terrorists and it's not the kind of neighborhood where you buy drugs on the corner anyway as far as I can tell. He's a celebrity, if he wants drugs or someone to fuck he calls a number and someone brings them to him and stops at Subway for him if he needs a sammich too.


Well, whatever. This seems too on the nose to be a real planned out attack but the world does have psychos in it that do crazy shit. I'll pop some popcorn while we wait for the full story.

 

[Water-T]

There is a 100% chance of security camera footage of this. Can't wait till it gets released.

It'll show Jussie paying some rough trade to choke him and pee on him, then the guy freaks out and bails when he gets a little tight on the noose.

 

[Slowboat to China]

Citation needed.

 

[OttoWest]

No explanation for this makes sense to me. The closest I can come to that makes sense is he got really drunk, injured himself, got embarrassed, lied, and dug in deeper.

Hook up gone bad seems plausible.

 

[Arachnomatricide]

Hook up gone bad seems plausible.

But why lie about it? Too damn cold for paparazzi too. We only know about it because he brought it to the police and media.

Maybe he was with a woman instead of a man and he wanted to avoid scandal, haha.

 

[Yellow Yam Scam]

But why lie about it? Too damn cold for paparazzi too. We only know about it because he brought it to the police and media.

Maybe he was with a woman instead of a man and he wanted to avoid scandal, haha.

I can think of a bunch of possibilities. The hookup might have involved with drugs or other unsavory elements. Maybe he just decided that if he had to go public with getting beaten up he'd add a little spice to the story so that it wasn't just a weird story about a gay guy getting beaten up by some dude he met on an app. Maybe it was just a drug deal that went bad. Maybe he just started some shit with someone got into a fight that went badly and made up the MAGA stuff so that it'd play better in the media. There's a lot of possible degrees to which this is bullshit - all that we know for certain is that it's bullshit.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

So he walked around wearing a noose around his neck like a snazzy necktie for nearly an hour?

Jesus fuck. What the actual fuck with this nonsense.

 

[ICametoLurk]

- 2 men, white and wearing ski masks - put a rope around his neck - poured bleach on him - "This is MAGA country." In Chicago at 2 a.m. Really?

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Uh- A roving gang of MAGA terrorists!? At this temperature, at this time of night, in this part of Chicago, localized entirely inside a Subway!?

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

I'm calling it...

Shenanigans.

Shenanigans has been called.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Uh- A roving gang of MAGA terrorists!? At this temperature, at this time of night, in this part of Chicago, localized entirely inside a Subway!?

...may we see it?

 

[Arachnomatricide]

I can think of a bunch of possibilities. The hookup might have involved with drugs or other unsavory elements. Maybe he just decided that if he had to go public with getting beaten up he'd add a little spice to the story so that it wasn't just a weird story about a gay guy getting beaten up by some dude he met on an app. Maybe it was just a drug deal that went bad. Maybe he just started some shit with someone got into a fight that went badly and made up the excuse the MAGA stuff so that it'd play better in the media. There's a lot of possible degrees to which this is bullshit - all that we know for certain is that it's bullshit.

There is surveillance video of him in the Subway though, presumably without a noose around his neck.

Authorities have obtained a surveillance image of Smollett inside of the Subway restaurant before the attack but do not have any video of the assailants, officials said.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/...ked-hospitalized-hate-crime/story?id=60701735

"In the initial reports there was no mention of MAGA. When detectives followed up with [Smollett] later in the day, he recalled the offenders making those comments and detectives completed a supplemental report."

https://www.eonline.com/news/100948...-after-homophobic-and-racially-charged-attack

Forgot that little detail the first time around.

According to police radio traffic, a dispatcher asked officers to check on a battery report from a caller in an apartment in the 300 block of East North Water Street just after 2:30 a.m.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-ent-empire-actor-attacked-20190129-story.html

There was some kind of witness to the altercation that called it in.

 

[kobebyarlant]

Jussie fingers the culprit.

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

This is all part of some weird narrative...apparently this letter was sent to Fox Studios just over a week ago.

View attachment 652367

That is just hilariously bad. Note the return address is MAGA.

He might be the stupidest person ever. He shows evidence that he has been planning these hoaxes, then walks around with the noose he crafted around his neck waiting for the world to award him his victim points. They wrap a noose around his neck and he doesn't cast it off immediately once they're gone? Okay then.

"Look at me, I'm weak and pitiful, shower me with attention. Daddy, why don't you love me?!"

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

>White people walking around at 2 a.m.
>In ChIraq.
>Out trying to lynch a black guy.
>In ChIraq.
>No one noticing this.
>In ChIraq.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

My only thought for leaving the noose on would be that he didn't want to tamper with evidence / shock of the incident.

That being said, this nig is full nig-shit.

 

[pwnest injun]

I hope that faggot show gets canceled.

 

[Flexo]

Oh they are wanting SOOOOOO badly for this to be true after the Covington thing.

Part of me wants to see it be a hoax just to deflate those egos.

 

[NSFW]

Okay, so initially Jussie didn’t mention “MAGA", but TMZ said it happened while the Chicago police denied it (and it wasn’t in the initial report). Then the police ask Jussie in the hospital and he was like ‘oh yeah, they totally said that’...

Who even started that, TMZ?