{"id":32420,"date":"2019-03-26T15:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T19:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=32420"},"modified":"2019-03-26T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T19:33:51","slug":"smollettgate-charges-against-jussie-smollett-scandaloulsy-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=32420","title":{"rendered":"SMOLLETTgate: Charges Against Jussie Smollett Scandaloulsy Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Report: Chicago Police Superintendent Furious Jussie Smollett Charges Dropped<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_119595\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Eddie-Johnson-Getty-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119595\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Eddie-Johnson-Getty-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119595\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-119595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Johnson (Scott Olson \/ Getty)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>by Joel B. Pollack<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<h2>Chicago Police Department superintendent Eddie Johnson is reportedly furious that charges against Hollywood actor Jussie Smollett were dropped by Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx on Tuesday.<\/h2>\n<p>Foxx\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/03\/26\/jussie-smollett-has-all-charges-dropped-against-him\/?utm_source=breaking_news&amp;utm_medium=banner\">dropped<\/a>\u00a0all 16 felony charges against Smollett, whom police accused of faking a hate crime in January and blaming it on Trump supporters. The prosecutor reportedly cited Smollett\u2019s community service as a reason to drop the charges and let him go.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie De Mar, a reporter for Chicago\u2019s local CBS affiliate WBBM-2, reported that Johnson was \u201cfurious,\u201d and that he had not been consulted or informed about the decision to drop the charges against Smollett.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources tell CBS2  Chicago Police Supt. Johnson is  \u201cfurious.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He had no heads up this was going to happen.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbschicago?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cbschicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charlie De Mar (@CharlieDeMar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlieDeMar\/status\/1110567019873779714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I can tell you that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chicago_Police?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Chicago_Police<\/a> are furious over SA Kim Foxx\u2019s decision to drop all charges against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JussieSmollett?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JussieSmollett<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; raferweigel (@RaferWeigel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaferWeigel\/status\/1110567463949877249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other reporters confirmed reports that police were upset by the decision:<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaferWeigel\/status\/1110567463949877249\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"3\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I can tell you that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chicago_Police?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Chicago_Police<\/a> are furious over SA Kim Foxx\u2019s decision to drop all charges against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JussieSmollett?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JussieSmollett<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; raferweigel (@RaferWeigel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaferWeigel\/status\/1110567463949877249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last month, Johnson won national acclaim for his remarks at a press conference announcing Smollett\u2019s arrest, when he said that as an African-American, he was outraged by Smollett\u2019s attempt to explot the history of racism for personal gain:<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m left hanging my head and asking, why? Why would anyone, especially an African-American man, use the symbolism of a noose to make false accusations? How could someone look at the hatred and suffering associated with that symbol and see an opportunity to manipulate that symbol to further his own public profile? How can an individual who has been embraced by the city of Chicago turn around and slap everyone in this city in the face by making these false claims? Bogus police reports cause real harm. They do harm to every legitimate victim who is in need of support by police and investigators as well as the citizens of this city. Chicago hosts one of the largest pride parades in the world, and we\u2019re proud of that as a police department and also as a city. We do not, nor do we ever, tolerate hate in our city, whether that hate is based on an individual\u2019s sexual orientation, race or anything else. So I\u2019m offended by what has happened, and I\u2019m also angry. I love the city of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department, warts and all. But this publicity stunt was a scar that Chicago didn\u2019t earn and certainly didn\u2019t deserve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He added:\u00a0\u201cTo make things worse, the accusations within this phony attack received national attention for weeks. Celebrities, news commentators and even presidential candidates weighed in on something that was choreographed by an actor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the\u00a0<em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-met-jussie-smollett-kim-foxx-records-20190313-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that Foxx had tried to persuade police to turn the investigation over to the FBI after an appeal by Tina Tchen, former chief of staff for First Lady Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Smollett\u2019s legal team, which had always claimed that he had been treated unfairly in the media, told reporters on Tuesday in Chicago that there had been no \u201cdeal,\u201d and that charges had simply been dropped.<\/p>\n<p>They added that the Nigerian-American brothers,\u00a0Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo,\u00a0were the ones who had attacked Smollett.<\/p>\n<p>Smollett, addressing reporters, thanked his supporters and said that he had always been truthful \u2014 even though he initially told police that his attackers had been white and had shouted, \u201cThis is MAGA country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/03\/26\/report-chicago-police-superintendent-furious-jussie-smollett-charges-dropped\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/03\/26\/report-chicago-police-superintendent-furious-jussie-smollett-charges-dropped\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: Chicago Police Superintendent Furious Jussie Smollett Charges Dropped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}