Jussie Smollett Charged with Felony for Faking “MAGA Trump Supporter” Assault
- Jussie Smollett Charged With Felony After Falsely Reporting “Hate Crime”
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
Days after media leaks exposed him for allegedly faking a highly publicized hate crime that he said was explicitly carried out by Trump supporters near his apartment in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with filing a false report and disorderly conduct.
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The charge came just hours after police confirmed that Smollett was a suspect in a criminal investigation, and that they were looking into whether Smollett may have paid two brothers who were initially questioned in the attack to fake the crime. The two brothers worked on the show ‘Empire’, and were initially identified as suspects in the attack before they were released.
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Smollett, who is black and openly gay, said he was walking home from Subway to his apartment in the 300 block of East North Water Street around 2 am last month when two men walked up to him, yelled racial and homophobic slurs, declared “This is MAGA country,” before they started beating him and then wrapped a noose around his neck. They also – according to Smollett – called him “that f***** ‘Empire’ n****”.
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