Jussie Smollett arrived at a Chicago courthouse on Monday morning (February 24) surrounded by a mob of people.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Smollett appeared before Judge James Linn and entered a not guilty plea on six new disorderly conduct charges after he was indicted earlier this month.
The charges were handed down by a grand jury on Tuesday (February 11). The office of Special Prosecutor Dan Webb said, “A Cook County grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Jussie Smollett with making four separate false reports to Chicago Police Department officers related to his false claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, knowing that he was not the victim of a crime.”
The trouble stems from Smollett’s January 2019 claim he was attacked by two MAGA hat-wearing homophobic and racist men who beat him, put a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him. Investigators ultimately determined Smollett had fabricated the entire story.
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[This article as been update. The following was published on February 11, 2020.]
Disgraced Empire actor Jussie Smollett has reportedly been indicted by a grand jury on six disorderly conduct charges. According to NBC News, the office of Special Prosecutor Dan Webb confirmed the charges were handed down on Tuesday (February 11).
“A Cook County grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Jussie Smollett with making four separate false reports to Chicago Police Department officers related to his false claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, knowing that he was not the victim of a crime,” the office said in a statement.
This is yet another chapter in Smollett’s already lengthy saga. Smollett is currently facing a $130,000 lawsuit from the city of Chicago, which police and prosecutors say is the amount of money it cost to investigate Smollett’s alleged hate crime.
In January 2019, Smollett claimed he was attacked by MAGA hat-wearing racists who put a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him. While he initially garnered sympathy from his fellow Empire actors and the entertainment community at-large, investigators soon realized Smollett had fabricated the entire story.
As a result, he was arrested and charged with felony disorderly conduct in February 2019 for the alleged false report he filed with Chicago police.
Former Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson accused Smollett of staging the crime to “promote his career,” while police said Smollett paid Nigerian brothers Ola and Abel Osundairo $3,500 to orchestrate the attack.
Last March, a grand jury indicted Smollett on 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for making a false report but all charges were inexplicably dropped just weeks later, sending shockwaves through the Chicago Police Department.
In addition to all of the legal drama, Smollett was not allowed to return to Empire for Season 6, which director Lee Daniels made abundantly clear last June while replying to a Variety article stating otherwise.
“@Variety @JoeOtterson This is not factual,” Daniels wrote. “Jussie will NOT be returning to Empire. -LD.”
Queerpac still ain’t gonna do any time.
Might be what he needs to revive his career, everybody forgot he existed until this came out
But going to jail would be like going to the Club for him…. they’d love him in there… he’d be in heaven there….that lil nigga probably might not want to come out lol… maybe that’s what he wanted all along who knows what this Fruity Pebble is really thinking.
LOL. I guess Mrs. Obama can’t help you this go around. Jackass. This dude single handled my put the black man back at least 10 years. SMH
Niggaz in the pen gonna be lining up to say that they Smollested him over and over….it won’t end well… Prison Pipe… equals…AIDs or HIV….Death…or…Young Thug Fan..it’s serious.
fuck this asshole
The niggaz in the pen will definitely
Imagine if some white actor did this.. if the ethnicities were reversed.. that a white person would make such a hate crime hoax.. he would be sent to prison for life.. but since it’s this way around the media loved it.. they got to blame whitey and incite race war
Classic trolling lmao no one loved what he did people of every race don’t like this man
You are correct that average people like you and me hate him, but the liberal politicians wished it had truly happened. The media wished it truly happened. Because they use shit like that to drive us apart.
Lock him up ASAP. Leftists think they are above the law.
FINALLY all the toxic gas lighting, and racial false flagging is being exposed publicly.
Jussie is far from the exception, there’s millions of Jussies out there.
Yup. There are TONS of hoax hate crimes. And the main purpose is to make us all hate each other. I’m so glad it’s being exposed, because I don’t like us being divided up racially. That’s not cool man. I love all my fellow Americans, and I truly mean that. People such as BERNIE Sanders and Kammala Harris used Jussie hoax instantly to talk shit. They use it to say “this is terrible, and it needs to stop”, then essentially point fingers at white Republicans, because politicians mainly use tragedy to advance their own Agendas. These politicians WISH Jussie was attacked. They WISH White Supremacy was more common. Just so they could use it to divide us, and get more people to support them.
This is MAGA country!!!!!! Baaaaaahahahahhahahahah nobody in Chicago is yelling that. Hahaha and let alone in -21 degree weather while standing outside a Subway waiting for a gay actor to go get a foot long. Remember all the Hollywood stars that vouched for this dbag? They need to catch heat too.
To be fair, since Jussie pulled this hateful stunt, many of us now yell “THIS IS. MAGA COUNTRY” haha. I actually have a big “MAGA COUNTRY” flag outside my house. But before that? Hell no. Anyone who trusted Jussie from the start was either a complete jackass, or deep down wanted it to be true, to paint the people they dislike as evil. There were so many obvious red flags from the start, such as Jussie not taking the noose off for a long time, literally going into the police station with a noose still around his fucking neck. Like cmon man, any one of us would have taken that shit off instantly, considering that shit can fucking choke you to death lol. Then, being so late at night, or early in morning, far below zero in the coldest week of Chicago’s winter, and spraying a face with BLEACH? Bleach freezes at temperatures above 32 degrees. The whole story didn’t make sense from the start, and he executed the hoax crime terrible lol.
Hmm Netflix or HBO is probably cooking up a new Series. Lies of Juicy Smooyet
Chicago can’t solve a real crime so they wasted all that money on Jussie for attention. Jussie committed a crime against himself now they want money that the people will never see. The kids there can’t go to school. outside or sit in their own homes without being shot or murdered everyday. This case was to take the focus off of Jason Van Dyke only getting 6yrs for 16shots for murder of Laquan McDonald. Now that’s a hate crime. Its election time and here we go again. Kim Foxx must got them shaking in their boots. We have real hate crimes and burning crosses but nothings being done. Get out of here with this garbage. Free Jussie
Your a fucking retard. Crime against himself? Hell no. He was attempting to destroy race relations nationwide. He’s pure evil.
‘Free Jussie’. ‘Real hate crimes’. LMAO. You are an idiot. A precedent needs to be set. You can’t do what he did.
Lee Daniels ran when the going got tough. How did that work out for you?. No one is exempt from the bull cause you still got cancelled. If Jussie had his own ass kicked, then that makes him the greatest actor of all. You’ll stupid to not have him working .All of these organizations running around trying to stop black men from making money. Go stand up for someone and something that really matters. Jussie didn’t do nothing to me or you. Chi town wasted the money for publicity. The mayor was on his way out the door, now chief of police fired for lying bout being drunk. Lock his ass up since lying is a crime.
I feel sorry for your mother.
Tha fuck you say about his mutha????
So, if some racist white guys actually bleached Jussie, and wrapped a noose around his neck, would you actually care, or would you laugh at him? I’d laugh. Fuck that dude.
The fact politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Kamalla Harris instantly took Jussies obvious lies as truth is just ONE example of how they are complete bullshit artists. Anyone who blindly believed Jussies false story is either a complete idiot, or just hates white Republicans, and didn’t care if it really happened or not. If two white guys were arrested as suspects, Jussie wouldn’t have said a word, and would have let two innocent men go to prison. Takes a seriously fucked up person to do what Jussie did. What jussie did is bad for those who truly have experienced nasty crimes, and deserve to be trusted to some extent. Jussie is the boy who cried wolf, except he cried “Maga hat lynched me!”. Nah bro, I wear a MAGA hat all the time. I’d be the first guy to jump in and defend someone being wrongfully attacked. We aren’t a bunch of hate mongers like the media paints us. Come to a rally if u think we are hateful. Come meet us. We are very nice, relaxed people. Just your average hard working, peace loving people.
Bro trump says the most out there divisive shit and you’re really blaming the media? If you were a Mexican American and a candidate came out saying most of your people in the US are liars and rapists, wouldn’t you feel targeted and angry about that? Wouldnt you consider that racist rhetoric or at the very least irresponsible generalizing? Wouldn’t you assume the people who support that candidate also feel the same way? The media loves trump, cnn is basically Trump Tv, but you gotta hold him accountable too. You might be hardworking and nice with good values, but the guy on your hat has never represented those values to anyone outside his white fanbase. To anyone who has actually felt hurt or victimized by some of his words, it’s obvious why they would consider you a hate-monger too.
Come on, I stopped when you brought up Mexican Americans and Trump. I’m an American of Mexican descent. Trump wasn’t referring to ‘my people’, because my people are the Americans in my home country: America. I have no loyalty to Mexico, and why should I? The Mexicans I know call me a pocho behind my back and would say it to my face as well. If you don’t know what that means, look it up. It’s a derogatory term and they DO NOT like you, me, black, white, Asian, they are very racist people. Mexicans only like Mexicans. They don’t even want people from other Latin American countries invading Mexico. Well, I don’t want anyone invading America. I don’t know who you are or your race, but you shouldn’t be protecting border jumpers. We don’t know who is coming over here unchecked and you should be concerned. I am not a victim of Trumps words. Only a snowflake would be offended by what he says. The truth is many criminals pour into our country through MX, so I’m all for the wall. I support ICE. I support Trump. The Democrats have nobody worth voting for anyway. You better wake up and realize not all ‘Mexican Americans’ want border jumpers here. I’m done paying for those people with MY tax money.
THANK YOU! I have full blooded Mexican cousins who became citizens a decade or so ago. They worked hard to become Americans, and did so to flee the violence in Mexico. The last thing they like to see is illegal aliens and Cartel bringing that same violence to America. Ms13 is the most heinous, and violent gang in America, mainly consisting of illegal aliens. With that said, my Mexican cousins love Trump, because they value law and order, and love America. As a Trump supporter, I have zero problems with Mexican people, or ANY race of people. I’m NOT Okay with illegal immigration. If it was mainly white Australians coming here illegally, I’d want every single one of them prosecuted and deported too.
In your very first point you purposely misinterpreted Trump. He has never referred poorly to American citizens. He’s clearly ONLY talking about ILLEGAL Aliens, which he is correct, comitt crimes at much higher rates than the average American citizen does. You are not providing an actually examples of him saying divisive things. Trump isn’t a racist, and your claiming he only works for whites, when my black cousin was LITERALLY released from prison 6 years early due to Trump admin pushing the “first step act”. You can talk out of your ass all you want but black America and Hollywood loved Trump, until he became a serious contender for president. Even notorious ACTUAL racist AL Sharpton used to praise Trump.
Wanna know what’s funny? When notorious KKK member David Duke supported the “reformers political party” in the year 2000, Trump left because of that. Then guess what? OBAMA had nothing but nice words to say about KKK Leader and Senator Robert Byrd. Obama and Hillary praised him, and he was a literal KKK member. Look it up. It’s true. Trump was beloved by black Americans, up until 2015. Jesse Jackson liked Trump. AL Sharpton. Will Smith. 50 Cent. ICE Cube. METHOD MAN had Trump feature on his album. DEMOCRATS all loved Trump, Including govenor Cuomo, Schumer, Hillary and Bill Clinton went to his wedding. OBAMAS college thesis said the American Dream was to be Trump. Ludacris liked Trump. Oprah liked Trump. Moral of the story is that Trump has had his ideas ALWAYS PUBLIC, yet only recently has been slandered as evil. Trump has LITERALLY gotten more black men out of prison than Obama in all his 8 years, and Bill Clintons Crime Bill was the reason they got overly extensive sentences in the first place
Absolute facts right here bro. Great comment!
Trump said that bout illegal aliens, not Mexican Americans. Stop reading headlines without research. We’ve got black ppl in need in America nationwide in these our decimated cities, yet ppl like u wanna put illegal aliens first. They give illegal aliens free Healthcare and housing, but leave AMERICANS in the gutter. Btw, I hated Trump in 2016. Then I saw how much he was working to help average Americans. My child tax credit doubled, giving me an extra few grand. I’m happy. I voted Obama twice, and I now see him as no different than Bush or Clinton.
I already know this drama queen is going to say he’s getting threats in prison and needs special treatment. He’ll use his sexuality to separate himself from the more dangerous inmates. Let’s be real, this guy is only going to feel a tiny sliver of prison if he’s ever sent. Instead, he’ll have his aunty Kamala Harris make a fat payment on his behalf and dude will get probation.
I just found out that Dude was in the Mighty Ducks Movie
Where is the Empire cast? Aren’t they Juicy’s cheerleaders? They were the ones claiming he was telling the truth. They’re gone now.
Now he’s going to play gay activist who Was falsely put in prison, but liked the booty play in their
This nigga cute though, if he really in prison, his lunch meat
Sorry everybody not down with Trump. Just cuz he freed a few black people for Kim and for black votes don’t make him give a damn about brown skin. No one has to put shit in his mouth it runs right out of it. If a white person would of put a loose round his neck they would of considered them to be mentally disabled. Replacing the white hood with the maga hat don’t make you smart. He got to do something to get black votes considering he’s called you everything under the sun in your face. Can.t get 10 people to rally against murderers but you got all this energy for Jussie whipping Jussie. Oh that’s right its about the Trump hat. Its plenty of people wrongly convicted of all races. Now its a big deal about black people. Umm how convenient.