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https://jezebel.com/jussie-smollett-might-be-prosecuted-after-all-1835747027/amp
CaramelRhapsody
As a victim of a hate crime I'd like to punch him in his lying face!
exdomineus1337
Boy if only cpd was this thorough with its own failures of the people
8008135calculator
Yeah. I'm sure him and Carbi B will be in prison in no time. Not.
Icyfirebolt
Good, he should go to prison.
BrenShen
Money and the right connections can get you into or out of anything.
foxmichaels
"unspecial"?
DontTellMeHowToLiveMyLife
There’s the joke
bogus1983
That's Jez trying to be clever.
putinpie
This fucker is scum.
bananas4rent
Prosecution for fake persecution
RekyTheNeko
He deserves prison, hope he gets it.
PrinceOfSpace
Jezebel is a shitshow of “journalism”
JackDawesLovesmybigwhat
That's true of just about all the gawker network. I mean, I like Jalopnik. A glorified auto blog isn't the same as a news outlet though.
RMaybeth
jussie being told he's the main suspect
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dunewolf
Does not the case of double jeopardy come into play? being charged for same crime, despite dropped charges? jw
dunewolf
oh nvm I googled it..
TCGView
He broke the law. He needs to face the music.
Yesisaidthat
Even of it's just misdemeanors and gets 80 hours of community service. His lie could have started race riots.
Qong
That guy is a real racist. If anything is a hate crime it's what he did.
SankariSuomi
Lock him up!
Kravik
NO she recused herself from the case and gave it to one of the people under her and she was SUPPOSED to recuse her OFFICE from the 1/2
Kravik
case and got another office to take over. the case wasnt handled properly and should have been restarted instead they drop and let him go2/2
Kravik
this article tries to make it sound like it was public outcry rather than was is codified in US law
jmulderr
As someone that doesn't watch that show, is there any reason I should care about this? I see it in the news, but it's just celeb gossip, no?
Camelspotting
Not even a little bit. It really doesn't matter.
faultysage
Pretty much but the right can latch onto it to prove all their points and own the libs.
MrBill1
Celebrity gossip is who is dating who or who had a fight with who. This guy faked a racial attack hoping to make a bigger divide between us
jmulderr
So, I SHOULD ignore him then?
Camelspotting
So lets make sure we fulfill his wishes as much as possible.
ftex530
This could have started riots with loss of life and property. Creating needless division and hate. The little boy who cried wolf
jmulderr
Good thing people didn't care too much, then! Thanks all for the responses, feeling better about my ignorance on this one.
UnspokenX
the big one is that if this goes high enough, the outcome will set a precedent either way, and the US court system relies heavily on them.
jmulderr
That seems fair. So not interesting now, but tune in if it makes it to an appellate court?
UnspokenX
I mean, always tune in because it at least sets the tone, but otherwise yeah. if it gets traction and people look to it as an example...
IrinaPalm
He just happens to be in show biz but it's much more than a "celebrity" case.
jmulderr
How so?
IrinaPalm
Showing people that they can make false accusations and get away with it.
yippee4x42000
Bullshit....if he weren’t a gay black dude...
JustLettingPeopleBeWrong
You gonna finish that thought? I'm pretty sure it's not going anywhere good or relevant...
yippee4x42000
He’d be in jail...prove me wrong
Electriccarsbestcars
Fuck off. the cops botched the shit out of that investigation and the chicago pd are notoriously corrupt. They literally ran a black site
ObliqueRay
I remember when articles weren't posted in fucking cellphone screenshots.
PhillFan
Jezebel is a dumpster fire of a news source.
Soupisonson
It's still true
knightsLikeThisOnANightLikeThis
I mean there’s tons of other non “dumpster fire” new sources reporting as well. This just had the most recent update.
ilsalta
I really hope so. He is a travesty to actual victims.
m1k3tv
To be fair, the disproportionate coverage this gets hurts actual victims more
brosephsabastiandathird
"unspecial" prosecutors, haha
Poopoopeepeevagina
I had to reread it to grasp how sassy that remark was.
W4fflem4n
Basic bitch prosecutors
cptcr
just a step above, "you're a prosecutor?" and they're above, "loser prosecutor"
wheeledPhoto
Very unspecial. He’s scum, but charging him with 16 counts of disorderly conduct for lying to the cops is a crime unto itself. 1/2
wheeledPhoto
Prosecutors should go to jail for that distortion of the law.
AggressiveChickenSandwich1
Almost sounds like The Onion!
TheFlyingPigSquadron
I had to double check that it wasn't
SergeantMoomoos
Exactly what I thought!! Word for word!
DoNotTakeSeriousPls
Every headline “this confusing story”. It’s literally not confusing at all. A wealthy man with influence tried to use it to avoid punishment
DontTellMeHowToLiveMyLife
These days that’s presidential behavior.
IrinaPalm
Yeah, Bill Clinton losing his law license was nothing special.
stavesacre
These days? I'd like to direct you to the history of basically every leader ever.
Yesisaidthat
http://imgur.com/4G9INuL
1Plebian
It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
TroelsyTwo
Not the only dodgy cunt on Empire..
ASmallMediumAtLarge
Can you believe some people STILL believe him?
alchemist12345
They do?
ChallengerDeep
There are some dense motherf--kers out there.
georgecostanzalatexsalesman
Yeah people still believe oj is innocent
TheRealAethrys
I have seen the modern left, yes.
DadBodThor
People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.
theperfectusernamedoesntexist
Thanks, K
vitaminalgas
Describe the some please...
Sionas
You know people think there are angels writing down the good and bad stuff they did so this is nothing lmao.
Sionas
Oh no I pissed some people off
makesense
Can you believe some people have found him guilty without seeing everything?
HipPunch
I mean, I’m all for “innocent until proven guilty”, but this dude is such a piece of crap. He’s so guilty that he deserves to be in prison.
clucja1
If he is guilty yes. He has clearly paid a huge price already. At the very least he should be considered innocent until proven guilty
DeepFriedAndSanctified
Can you believe the black prosecutor is claiming that race preference had nothing to do with it but racism is behind attacks on her?
snoopaloopa12
What happened? I mean, I don’t know if I can take that level of hypocrisy but what did the prosecutor claim?
Yesisaidthat
http://imgur.com/4G9INuL
Yesisaidthat
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Yesisaidthat
he needs some form of guilty verdict and punishment. I don't think it should end his life/carrier. But walking away clean is absurd.
justthetip1990
Yea but it’s nothing to beat yourself up over
YeahSandwich
1Plebian
NIce. It depends on the proportions though. There's an amount of crazy baked into the cake, but the dose makes the poison.
rockfireman
Seeing posts on tumblr people celebrating and trying to say "I told you so" when the charges were dropped. It was ridiculous.
5po0ky
It’s like OJ, it doesn’t matter, it’s just nice to see a brown guy slip the grips of justice like white dudes do on the daily. It’s a matter
georgecostanzalatexsalesman
Just curious, if oj had brutally murdered two black people would you feel the same way?
5po0ky
Dude I’m pretty apathetic about it. I’d prefer no one get murdered. I would prefer justice actually happen in our legal system but that’s
5po0ky
Not gonna happen, it’s gonna stay absurdly skewed in favor of white people of means, a group of which I am a part of
quotas47
I agree, but anyone that slips by on false charges ruins it for everyone legitimately suffering from the real ones.
5po0ky
No man, he is partly a part of the out group, a minority community who always gets the short end of the stick. It’s why they (justly) DGAF
5po0ky
About his innocence or guilt. Seeing one of their group beat the system is rewarding, that’s all. It’s a completely valid viewpoint
dafawkudoin
5po0ky
of perspective tbh
MrBill1
YAY! RACISM!
5po0ky
He simply is an example of how the system is flawed because he is an outsider. I’m surprised at how many downvotes I got tbh. It’s kind of
5po0ky
How it is. Can anyone argue differently? The point is he and all the other white dudes who came before him should get locked up like every
TheGhostofElizabethShue
Let me guess, the same 'innocent until proven guilty' people who defended obvious liar Brett Kavanaugh?
ASmallMediumAtLarge
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, that's literally how law works in the states. Why you put it in quotations escapes me.
TheGhostofElizabethShue
Because quotations don't just mean sarcasm. In this case it's something conservatives say, the irony is that for Smollett they suddenly are>
TheGhostofElizabethShue
> all about evidence and credibility. Where was this prosecutorial rigour when examining the evidence against ol' Brett?
mymalcontentaccount
If you can find verifiable evidence be sure to let the rest of the world know, and thank the nice unicorn riding leprechaun who gave to you
Iwantedthenamezerocoolbutsomeoneelsetookit
Oh ya, Ford was sooooooo credible. Now it seems it’s ok to make fake claims as long as it’s on the person you don’t like.
TheGhostofElizabethShue
She was. Even the republicans said "they believed something happened, just not as she described", which btw is anti-science, as per.
Alltheothersaretake
Sure, I just saw the sun set over the ocean... Does it mean the sun is drowning? Maybe... More than likely not. What's "anti-science"?
TheGhostofElizabethShue
Expert testimony regarding memory formation during traumatic events. Literally impossible for her to just "remember it wrong" but it lets>
EverydayIdleness
If he didn't have so much money and popularity he'd be in prison. But here we are.
assroar7
He’d still be popular in prison.
middlehead
He's not rich enough to make this go away himself. That was connections.
KRS101
Do you mean the fact that his sister worked for the Obamas? Because that's what he has.
BondHaimBond
But Rahm Emanuel also worked for Obama, doesn't that evens things out?
SquirtleSquad420
Or if the Chicago police didnt release all the info they had on him publicly making getting a unbiased jury a nightmare.
CraftedLine
Why don't they give these felonies to people who make false rape allegations?
mrt653801
Janewaygottheminivanstarship
If you lie to a police officer or in court it is a crime. You just have to prove it, same as rapes, which barely get prosecuted
CraftedLine
Maybe we should have a registry for those who lie in a court of law.
seenunseen
it was his familes political connectioms that got the charges dropped
EMTMarv
Naw he had powerful connections "friends" in Chicago...
WakeMeUpB4UpostPost
Camelspotting
They probably wouldn't have investigated anything in the first place. He'd have just been ignored.
Yesisaidthat
Eh, that shit could have started race riots.
pudf
Comet260
Nah. He's not big on liking brown folk.
wadatahmydamie
No no, that guy committed WAY more crimes than Jussie. But this post isn’t about him, so no need to bring him up
mrodonnell
How is he even that popular? One show I haven't seen? How can that have that much clout
knightsLikeThisOnANightLikeThis
It’s a good show
Wrathsputin
Duendes
Master of None was a good show but Aziz Ansari ate the wrong box. JS did something actually sinister
PaulsonPieces
I like it too. He’s still a douche.
brucatlas
Idk how this comment got so much hate jfc
Duendes
Bc it's an immoral attempt to justify JS's actions
brucatlas
I thought they were just saying "it's a good show"
Shmaaw
Also, it's a bad show
ydwyrd
Honestly I had never even heard of him before this.
GlenL
He must still be tight with Mr. Duckworth
korbendaIIas
He’s popular with the right people.
ASmallMediumAtLarge
He's got ties to the Obama family, who have ties with Kim Foxx. It's a whole web of save the rich from their due punishment
korbendaIIas
Yeah, it’s got nothing to do with money as he really doesn’t have that much of it. It’s his connections.
ASmallMediumAtLarge
You're right. It's got nothing to do with money. He still had to pay a 10,000 dollar bond which is pocket change to him. Money is no issue.
korbendaIIas
10k would be pocket change to get out of a felony. It’s suddenly not when it backfired, your careers over and your net worth is only 500k.
KeepItCopacetic
Hopefully he goes to jail for staging a fake hate crime that would have put someone in jail.
AliBarber
More likely it'll be for lying to police and giving false charges
Camelspotting
There's no way anyone would have gone to jail.
Christx30
If someone happened to be walking in the area on the way to 7-11 to get some milk, they would have gotten their life fucked over.
Camelspotting
It seems like you're implying he picked random people to take the blame, he did not. Nor would any of them been convicted with 0 evidence.
Christx30
He said a couple of white guys attacked him. If someone had been in the area they would have been accused. And I doubt Smolett would have >
Christx30
said, "no, it wasn't him. It was 2 other guys." It seems like he wasn't expecting to get the police involved, and lied to protect himself.
TheRealAethrys
Here's hoping Foxx gets charged with obstruction of justice.
Camelspotting
That makes 0 sense.
TheRealAethrys
That a pro criminal individual used her position to obstruct justice should be charged with it?
Camelspotting
Obstruct justice by recusing herself. That's a new one.
Mortalside
She never recused herself. Thats why this is all coming back to bite them in the ass. Her office was still the prosecuting attorney.
Camelspotting
Whether or not it was improper she did recuse herself.
TheRealAethrys
I've got a killer deal on a bridge if you're interested in buying.
Camelspotting
I'm not sure what you're referencing but I know it's irrelevant.
DeadlyEnzyme
Wasn’t Kim Foxx bought and paid for?
notashill
Its Chicago so...
drprofdaddy
From what I hear, it had more to do with Michelle Obama asking her to help him. A good connection to have when running for higher offices
ladyjayinator
I have a hard time believing Michelle Obama would risk her credibility for this dude.
Mortalside
Kim Foxx used to work for Machelle Obama. There are a lot of lines that connect according to Chicago PD.
Drtmgrt
Source for that “according to Chicago PD”?
fatuglypatheticloser
Smollett has ties to Michelle Obama, her secretary contacted Foxx thru email, so the rumor is she dropped charges as a favor to Michelle.
Asteroidrules
That's the conspiracy theory, but of course since she was recused from the case that's not possible.
LosPer
When you recuse, you have to separate the entire office from the case. She allowed a subordinate who she directed to handle it. No good.
KonradKurze
Can't really recuse herself if her office was still working the case. It should have gone to a different county at that point.
middlehead
She recused herself then reinserted herself.
keylancer13
Which is the entire reason the case got nulled and reopened, if you read the judge's statement. It's kind of hilarious.
malikcarr
None of this is proven, but the optics of it are so fucking terrible. Imagine the media shitstorm if these were right-wing public figures...
mardukkur
None of it even has the slightest bit of evidence. It's 100% a story with no backing.
RobMx80
What about the cancelled check to the two brothers?
mardukkur
This has what to do with Michelle Obama?
fatuglypatheticloser
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/3/13/18404894/records-former-michelle-obama-aide-smollett-relative-reached-out-to-kim-foxx
mardukkur
LOL how the fuck does this 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon shit have anything to do with Michelle Obama? You ppl are nuts.
fatuglypatheticloser
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/3/13/18404894/records-former-michelle-obama-aide-smollett-relative-reached-out-to-kim-foxx
Drtmgrt
Abs nothing in here about michelle obama except that the atty used to work for her