Update From Chicago PD Shows Jussie Smollett Hoax Falling Apart

There’s a critical update from police regarding the hate crime hoax perpetrated by “Empire” Star Jussie Smollett.

The thing has all but been confirmed as a hoax. Even the police aren’t buying it anymore.

“Confirmed with two Chicago PD sources that Jussie Smollett and his manager refused a request to turn over phone records to show Smollett’s manager was on the phone with Jussie when the attack took place. Its not clear if Chicago PD will move to obtain records independently.”

Confirmed with two Chicago PD sources that Jussie Smollett and his manager refused a request to turn over phone records to show Smollett’s manager was on the phone with Jussie when the attack took place. Its not clear if Chicago PD will move to obtain records independently

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 31, 2019

As we reported earlier this week:

Police have now scoured hundreds of hours of video footage and have found nothing resembling an attack on the star.

Keep in mind the alleged attack occurred in one of the most surveilled areas in the United States.

Fox 32 Chicago reporter Rafer Weigel said “My sources in Chicago PD are telling me this is looking more and more like a hoax.”

There are cameras all over the place but none caught the alleged vicious attack, The Daily Mail reported.

However, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi noted there are gaps and none of the footage police have reviewed shows the alleged attack.

Smollett, who is black and gay and who plays the gay character Jamal Lyon on the hit Fox drama, said the white men wearing ski masks assaulted him, hurled racist and homophobic slurs at him, doused him with an ‘unknown chemical substance’ previously reported as bleach and put a thin rope around his neck before yelling ‘this is MAGA country’ and fleeing.

Guglielmi said detectives investigating the allegations as a possible hate crime, have looked at hundreds of hours of surveillance video from businesses and hotels in the heavily monitored area.

But he said they still need to collect and view more. He said they are expanding the search to include footage from public buses and buildings beyond the crime scene’s immediate vicinity in the hopes of spotting the men who match Mollett’s description of the suspects.

‘We haven’t seen anybody, at this point, matching the description he gave, nobody looks menacing and we didn’t find a container anywhere,’ Guglielmi said, referring to a container for the liquid that was thrown at the actor.

Chicago has one of the most sophisticated and extensive video surveillance systems in the US, with thousands of CCTV cameras mounted on street poles, skyscrapers, buses and in train tunnels.

Here’s how Twitter reacted to the news:

There is no coming back for him if this proves a hoax.

— Gabriel (@Gabechanger) January 31, 2019

There absolutely is. You don’t even have to take my word for it, just wait if the story is proven false and then read the articles that will inevitably make some form of this argument: “it doesn’t matter if Jussie was wrong, the is the environment of fear that DT created.”

— Nate (@TheHyprSloth) January 31, 2019

Exactly Nate. “It may not have happened exactly the way he said but it’s Trumps fault he felt compelled to bend the truth”

— Dale Sams (@Dale_Sams) January 31, 2019

“He felt it was important to start a dialogue in the issues of race and homophobia in Trump’s America, because these are the sorts of things happening to vulnerable populations, blah, blah, blah”

— Don’t Start (@nivlag2018) January 31, 2019

He pretends to be someone else for a living. Why are people surprised when people who live their lives trying to live in fictional peoples mindsets end up to be crazy AF?

— david mckenzie (@dmcken22) January 31, 2019

We don’t know what’s on his phone and they very well may want to contain what police look at…he has rights too. Everyone is so quick to judge this. Let it play out!

— Austin Barker (@AustinBarker) January 31, 2019

We do know it will give police exact timeline since he claimed to be talking to his manager at the time of attack. It will help when reviewing video footage. It can also give location. police will need a warrant and request info from his cell provider delaying the investigation.

— M.C. (@MC20681834) January 31, 2019

This is starting to smell

— Eric (@timriggins28) January 31, 2019

2 huge boy who cried wolf stories for the left in 2 weeks. Not a good look. No credibility

— Eric (@timriggins28) January 31, 2019

Have to say this reeks. Hate to say it but I can’t be the only one who’s thinking it seems like a PR stunt.

— PR Queen (@PR_twit) January 31, 2019

He should be prosecuted for this hoax. The Chicago PD has crime to investigate and he has used them for this stunt.

— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) January 31, 2019

What do you think of this?

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