Jussie Smollett charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report

February 20th, 2019, 03:12 pm

Jussie Smollett charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report

“Jussie Smollett is now officially classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation by #ChicagoPolice for filing a false police report (Class 4 felony)” spokesman Anthony Guglielmi https://t.co/Es4XAz07Lf
— Variety (@Variety) February 20, 2019

Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been “officially classified” as a suspect in a criminal investigation for allegedly filling a false police report, according to Chicago police communications Officer Anthony Guglielmi. He goes on to state it is a Class 4 felony and that detectives are currently presenting evidence before a Cook County grand jury.

Minutes before this news broke, CBS2 in Chicago obtained an exclusive video of the two brothers (Ola and Abel Osundairo) linked to the attack. The brothers appear to buy ski masks, gloves, bandanas, sunglasses and red hats from a store the day before the assault.

Update
Jussie Smollett has been officially charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report.

“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly filed a false police report about an attack https://t.co/Mdm6P4qtaO
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) February 21, 2019

Sources: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Tagged: black celebrities, empire (fox), legal / lawsuit

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HOW DUMB ARE THE BROTHERS FOR GOING ALONG WITH THIS NONSENSE.

Like, they couldn’t have talked him out of this?

people will do a LOT of dumb shit for $$$$

their social medias are full of pride in their african heritage and agianst racism etc, so to fake a hate crime like that is disgusting on their end, what the fuck were they thinking??? You gonna pretend to put a black men in a noose for attention?? wtf??

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they could've very easily gotten killed too

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People have committed for murder for far less money. Not comparing them to murders but just saying people do all kinds of things for $

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All of the alleged details from the "leaks" seem idiotic. If you're going to something this stupid, why would you use your own phone and communicate with other involved people on it? Why exchange money shortly before it happens, and in a non-cash form at that? Why buy what looks like a burglar starter kit at a store near the scene? Why use people that have a clear connection to you? Why keep the Subway sandwich?

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Have any celebrities other than Cardi reacted to the latest updates on this case?

Do you mean when CPD announced "the trajectory of the investigation had changed"? If so, then Ava Duvernay, Roxane Gay, Trevor Noah, have all commented since those leaks came out, and some others were mentioned here https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/113943860.html

Well damn :/

Some people reaaaaaaaaaally want to believe so badly. Yikes

what a shock, people don’t want to believe that a high profile hate crime was faked. considering the damage something like this can do...i think a little empathy is warranted.

That warranty expired two days ago.

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Yeah. The mental gymnastics. The fact that some can't fathom the fact that there is definitelly some unreleased evidence

yeah, even in this thread tbh. it's baffling. people are still contorting his actions into any possible interpretation to avoid the simple truth that he lied.

OP, he has been officially indicted.

Thank you. I updated the post.

BREAKING NEWS

Jussie Smollett charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly filing false report about attack in Streeterville.

SOURCE: LOCAL CHICAGO NEWS. WGN 9

Edited at 2019-02-21 12:49 am (UTC)

o shit :(

Omg

well damn.

Wow.

wtf. i just dont get it..

Damn

Jesus.

shit

🤭

Are you happy about this?

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disorderly conduct?

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I think I'm going to be sick

Well heck

GODDAMNIT

reading about this reminds me of a bunch of press I followed at the start of Empire, when the creator (whose life inspired Jussie's character) got beat up and dumped in a trash can. I wonder if Jussie thought this could be "his origin story " in that same way.... so sad. smh.

1. The cpd handled this case like the clusterfuck they are, and it makes me even more angry at them irrespective of jussie's possible guilt. They damn well timed those "leaks" and "sources" to build a narrative in favor of the police. Being that they are a corrupt lying piece of shit organization, I don't have 100% faith in their credibility either.
2. I've known too many terrible idiots to write off jussie smollet as being mentally ill...I find it more likely he's just a dumb delusional attention-seeking narcissist if it turns out he planned the attack.
3. I feel terrible for his family.
4. If anyone in real life tries to use this case as evidence that racism is manufactured by delusional poc, I will scream and maim. The terrible actions of one poc do not have the same implications as the terrible actions of a racist white person.

Re. #4 so many assholes are already doing this. I made the mistake of venturing into Twitter replies and the MAGA white supremacists can't stop talking about how the real war is on white men etc.

Yeah re #2: there are a lot of people struggling with mental illness who don’t do something like this. Automatically thinking he has a mental illness in order to do something like this is a bit unfair to people who suffer with legit mental illness. I understand people’s need to speculate to try and rationalize the behavior but he could just be a raging narcissist

does narcissistic personality disorder not count as a mental illness? bc I thought most therapists classified personality disorders as mental illnesses when treating them.

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As if I am going to trust a fucking WORD from Anthony Guglielmi for one.
Look, I am not backing down from my belief that there is more going on here.
Edit: I don't even know, but something feels wrong still.

Edited at 2019-02-21 12:56 am (UTC)

He has been charged and that's what local news is reporting as they are outside of the Cook County Criminal Courthouse.

:( man what the heck.

lips, face, neck, fuckkkk. this post is less shitty bc of you

This is so sad. If true then there's something deeply wrong with him and I hope he gets help.

I'm so worried about how many real attacks against LGBTQ people and POC might be brushed off now as copycat false reports. It's hard enough getting the police to take hate crimes seriously, this is going to make it so much worse. Not to mention how emboldened the MAGAts probably are right now.

I'm so fucking angry.

I will update with more information as local news breaks it.

he tweeted this before his assault... but I'm assuming it was brought on by receiving the hate mail letter. it hasn't aged well :/ Would the investigation into the letter bring about a separate set of charges? I'm still in disbelief that he would go through these lengths to stage it all & risk so much.

Frauds are everywhere y’all. Protect the mind, heart and spirit of you and your people at all costs. Just remember... Salt, cocaine and anthrax can all appear to be sugar...(the “refined” kind of course) just be careful out here fam. Happy Sunday. Love you. Real talk. Love on.
— Jussie Smollett (@JussieSmollett) January 27, 2019

The letter is a different entity to all of this because it involves the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/113982577.html?thread=19323969905#t19323969905

Ah, missed your post earlier. Thanks for explaining what's at stake so clearly.

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I think he faked the hate crime because he faked the letter originally.

Hate mail wouldn't normally get much attention outside of his fanbase/social media but he put fake anthrax(aspirin) in it for effect and it got flagged by Fox/FBI as precaution. So he faked the attack to make the threat look real and compounded the situation.

So the brothers may have thought they were "helping" him initially to clear him of the fake letter threat.