The Jussie Smollett case took an unexpected turn on Tuesday morning (March 26) when prosecutors dropped all charges against the Empire actor.
Earlier this month, Smollett was indicted on 16 felony charges for allegedly filing a false police report, claiming he’d been a victim of a hate crime. He alleged two men put a noose around his neck, poured bleach on him and shouted racial and homophobic slurs while kicking and punching him.
As investigators dissected Smollett’s account of what happened, they determined he’d stage the entire thing.
Smollett pleaded not guilty and has maintained his innocence — but Twitter isn’t so sure.
Shortly after the news broke, countless people headed to the popular social media platform to berate not only Smollett but also the Chicago Police Department.
Some were outraged a seemingly guilty person got away with such a heinous lie while others felt the justice system – once again – failed. Like many others, Michael Rapaport (of course) had jokes.
Check out some of the reactions below.
black homosexual privilege the new white privilege?
i thought he was looking forward to going to prison. they love girls like him there.
10.000 $ Bond “donation” and the possibility of gettin maximum sentenced to “community service”…..a State Attorney that claims Smollett already did that service (but he never did) does not actually prove you are “innocent”. This is some David Copperfield David Blane type of ish. WHOA!
Michelle Obama intervened according to the Chicago Tribune.
He did? Birds of a feather.
This was probably a c.i.a operation gone bad, it was a mission to keep stirring the pot by spreading more hate in this country, to continue to keep the country decided…and it went wrong…the Chicago PD who were not informed, investigated and found the lies, but being that it came from higher up, the charges were dropped, before fruit loops start talking
Twitter? You wrote about people being ridiculed on Twitter?
Lol seriously…opinions of meme makers matter now. Smh I can just imagine the editor sitting there on Twitter reading through the memes thinking this is a hit. How about getting opinions of actual people with credentials
Hey Hussie Smallshit, Black lies Matter too!
Russians hacked the Chicago PD. We need to investigate.
Hope he never gets work again. Life should be ruined.
#BlackGayPrivilege
I just want to know how & WHY it shook out this way. Is it because he could afford good lawyers? We all know prison is for poor people, but I want details. How do you plead guilty & get charges dropped?
Lucy, ‘splain.
This case didn’t take an unexpected turn. We all knew this pu sssseeee would get away with it, because he had politicians behind him. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris are in on it. Why did that bs anti-lynching law fail to pass and once Jussie faked his beating it went up for vote again and passed? Kamel and Gay Booker couldn’t let that evidence out, that’s why the case is sealed airtight. Hope that truth comes out. Everything about this case is not what it appears to be. It was a political stunt.
The FBI said Chicago PD lied, the brothers said Chicago PD lied, Chicago PD said Chicago PD lied, EMPIRE said Chicago PD LIED, TMZ said Chicago PD lied, (TMZ is way more credible than Chicago PD). So with that said this no surprise.
I think he might be innocent, otherwise there’s no way they’d drop the charges. There must be information which we the public don’t know. Social media obviously doesn’t have all the facts. I see that all the ppl complaining in the tweets are white. But they are assuming he is guilty. How can they know? I just don’t see the police dropping charges, unless there case couldn’t win. And to say he has “black gay privilege” is disgraceful. “Rich celebrity who can afford a good lawyer privilege” maybe, but there is no such thing as black gay privilege in the real world.
His was a hate crime and all your BS won’t change that.
On the other hand, what innocent person forfeits $10k in bond and insists that the records be sealed if they didn’t do anything wrong?
Ok I did some research..perhaps jussie has powerful political friends who helped him .. but this isn’t privilege due to being black or gay..it’s privilege due to being rich, well-connected politically, and a celebrity. Many many white people call the cops on innocent black people, and they never get charged. It’s inevitable that black people have been shot by cops due to white ppl filing false reports.. but it never causes a media storm. To say black gay ppl are privileged after a single incident by a rich well connected celebrity, is not logical.
Wait a minute… you’re saying black people being shot by cops DOESN’T cause a media storm? Hahahaha. How’s Mark Zimmerman doing nowadays? This isn’t a black privallege thing. It’s a black and gay liberal victim thing. Mainly black. Gay people don’t cry and bitch and play the victim card anymore. Blacks on the other hand… NAACP, BET, BLM. They can have ALL KINDS of implicitly racist shit and that’s fine. Affirmative action. Great. Don’t ever expect them to address the fact that 15% of our population represents 65% of our prison populous. We have 2 million people incarcerated nowadays. Do the math. Victim. You’re probably one of these weird white Gus who empower morons like Jusse.
This boy took too much dick from old powerful men to go to jail when there’s not even a body involved. Don’t hate the player hate the game.
Yeah. It’s normal to walk in Chicago to get a sandwich at Subway past midnight, in -30 weather. You also find TONS of redneck Trump supporters walking around affluent neighborhoods in subarctic clothing, wearing ski masks and carrying nooses and bleach just looking for a gay black man to attack. In CHICAGO! GTFOH. This moron wanted attention and got it. I have a feeling the Obamas or someone with some serious clout got dude out of this. The Chicago PD Ian corrupt and incompetent, but come on. Ray Charles could have solved this one. I’m sure that drawing he sent himself, rightfully calling himself an N Word and a F Bomb will be on display at the Louvre some day. Ass clown.
Well said
Your country is a joke
It was not the Chicago PD who dropped the charges it was the state attorney.
I just can’t believe how easily all those felony’s just disappear. If anyone else would catch as much as one of those felony’s they’d be in lockup and their whole life would be ruined. Background screwed up . Fuck smollet or what ever the fuck his name is . Privladged POS.
Man hope somebody catches this fuckin fruit in traffic