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Thursday, January 20, 2022

Links - 20th January 2022 (2 - Jussie Smollett)

Meme - "Jussie Smollett guilty on some charges"
"Just "some charges," like 5 out of 6."

Jussie Smollett on Twitter - "Who is more to blame? A Devil who spreads obvious lies or a fool who chooses to believe those lies and pass them along? 🤔 #Thoughts"

Jussie Smollett on Twitter - "Happy Monday fam. Y’all ever wake up with bruises in random places like you’ve been whoopin your own ass in your sleep? 🤨"

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on Twitter - "Flashback: Convicted hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett had previously starred in a leftist political music video where there is a fake Donald Trump, white racists and a noose."

Meme - "Jussie Smollett:
Staged attack by an opposing political group
Zero evidence
MEDIA OUTRAGE
Andy Ngo:
Actually attacked by an opposing political group
Video evidence
MEDIA SILENCE"

Jussie Smollett Says He Didn’t Hand Over Phone Because Don Lemon Texted That Police Didn’t Believe Him - "Former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett testified Monday that he did not immediately hand over his cell phone to authorities partly because CNN’s Don Lemon texted him saying that the Chicago police did not believe his claims that two men attacked him and hurled racial and homophobic epithets at the gay black actor."

Meme - "Shout out to Jussie for hiring black actors for traditionally white roles"

Jussie Smollett Juror: We Knew He was Guilty, Even Those with Doubts - "It was not that doubters thought Smollett was innocent, the woman explained, but they wanted additional time to review the evidence and discuss it."

Sarsour, Other Left-Wing Activists Accuse Chicago Police of Framing Jussie Smollett - "An open letter cosigned by Linda Sarsour and other left-wing activists accuses the Chicago Police Department of fabricating the charge that actor Jussie Smollett concocted a hate crime against himself in 2019.  "Jussie faces false charges of felony disorderly conduct and is still being forced to fight back against a relentless and vicious smear campaign initiated by the Chicago Police Department and uncritically disseminated by the media," the letter states. "We believe Jussie, not the CPD."   Sarsour, a former co-chair of the Women's March, has also pushed anti-Israel conspiracy theories.. The letter Sarsour cosigned couches its support for Smollett in terms of the Black Lives Matter movement...   Other signers include Danny Glover, Angela Davis, and LisaGay Hamilton...   Liberal politicians and media members rallied around Smollett and declared the attack a lynching attempt in "Trump's America." A police investigation and local Chicago media reports, however, found no evidence to support Smollett's account. Brothers Abel and Oia Osundairo, who served as extras on Smollett's show Empire, later told police Smollett paid them to orchestrate the attack as part of a scheme to raise his salary. Surveillance video showed them purchasing the items used in the attack a day earlier."

Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx dismissed over 25k felony cases - "Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx has dismissed more than 25,000 felony cases - including many involving charges of murder and other serious crimes - in her first three years on the job, a new report shows.    Foxx gained notoriety last year when she dropped felony charges against Jussie Smollett, the Empire actor accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack on himself in January 2019. The Chicago Tribune on Monday published an analysis of Foxx's overall record on dropping charges, revealing that she has done so at a rate that's 35 percent higher than her predecessor. .. Foxx also said she is more selective about prosecuting the strongest, most winnable cases - though the Tribune's analysis showed that her overall conviction rate (66 percent) is lower than Alvarez's (75 percent)... a Cook County judge appointed a special prosecutor, former US Attorney Dan Webb, to investigate whether any misconduct occurred in Foxx's office's handling of the case... Webb's investigation proved very influential as it led to a grand jury indicting Smollett on new charges in February. Those charges, which were ridiculed by Foxx, are nearly identical to the ones her office dismissed."

Jussie Smollett Loses Malicious-Prosecution Counterclaim Against Chicago - "A federal judge dismissed actor Jussie Smollett’s malicious prosecution claim against Chicago, which claimed the city knew he was the victim of a hate crime, but accused him of lying anyway."

Jussie Smollett trial date set after Chicago judge denies dismissal request - "Actor Jussie Smollett will face trial over his alleged hate crime hoax beginning in late November, after a Chicago judge on Friday denied his lawyer’s Hail Mary pass at getting the case dismissed."

Jury sees video of Jussie Smollett in 'dry run' a day before attack - "Smollett’s lawyers claim the actor was really attacked — by the two brothers.  Prosecutors poked a hole in that claim Tuesday, revealing a text message sent by Smollett to one of the siblings a couple of weeks after the alleged attack...   “Brother…..I love you,” Smollett wrote to Abimbola Osundairo on Feb. 14, 2019. “I stand with you. I know 10000% you and your brother did nothing wrong and never would.”   “I am making this statement so everyone else knows,” the text said. “They will not get away with this. Please hit me when they let you go. I am behind you fully.”... Smollett was “not forthcoming” with investigators after he reported that he was attacked by men using homophobic and racial epithets while they allegedly assaulted him, according to a report by FoxNews.  Theis said a squad of about two dozen detectives logged some 3,000 hours investigating the actor’s claim... Smollett refused to give cops his medical records or a DNA sample to compare to evidence at the scene...   The surveillance footage shows Smollett walking near the scene with the Osundario brothers a day earlier, with the siblings seen taking a cab to a nearby neighborhood.  The two then switched to an Uber and met up with Smollett"
Clearly faked by the police. All the liberals, including politicians, who supported him must double down

BLM's defense of Jussie Smollett exposes truth of the school CRT wars - "The Black Lives Matter defense of Jussie Smollett is a good encapsulation of why parents are so upset about critical race theory and BLM ideology creeping into our schools.  You would think that Smollett faking a hate crime against himself for publicity would be an embarrassment, a farce that undermines the real victims of racism.  You’d be wrong. In a statement released Wednesday night, Dr. Melina Abdullah, director of BLM Grassroots and co-founder of BLM Los Angeles, called Smollett’s trial a “white supremacist charade” that is “forcing” Smollett to face “judges and juries operating in a system that is designed to oppress us, while continuing to face a corrupt and violent police department, which has proven time and again to have no respect for our lives.”  In the sneering confines of MSNBC and school board meetings, to question BLM or CRT is de facto racist. How can you oppose black lives? How can you disagree with teaching slavery in schools? But progressive proponents have proved time and again this is not about those things.  BLMers don’t want to make the police department or justice system more fair; they want to tear it down. “Policing at-large is an irredeemable institution,” Abdullah writes. “Black Lives Matter will continue to work towards the abolition of police and every unjust system.” What would replace it? A utopia of community workers, they say. But we already see what the real result is: record numbers of murder victims — many of whom are young black men — in Democrat-run cities across the nation. Chicago, whose police Adbullah holds in particular vitriol, has seen 777 homicides this year — and 81 percent of the victims were black.  In the minds of BLM, and of writers such as Ibram X. Kendi and 1619’s Nikole Hannah-Jones, America has not improved, and can’t. Abdullah refers to BLM as “abolitionists,” as if slavery never ended and the civil rights movement never happened.  Is the United States perfect? Of course not. But these activists go beyond saying racism persists and we must work for a better nation. They say fundamental institutions cannot be fixed and therefore must be destroyed... the facts don’t matter. He’s a black man, so he must be innocent. The system cannot be trusted."
Clear proof that there's nothing wrong with BLM and anyone who criticises it is a white supremacist

Smollett Admits On Stand To Changing Description Of ‘Attackers’ From ‘White’ To ‘Pale,’ Was Being ‘Responsible’ - "Prosecution then pressed Smollett on the matter, asking if he described his alleged attackers as white “because he thought it would [sic] more attention”... the actor also become defensive when asked about private Instagram messages he sent to Abimbola Osundairo, hours before the alleged attack"

Jussie Smollett Routinely Raises Fist In Air Outside Court, Did Same At BLM Protest

Jussie Smollett Found Guilty On Multiple Counts In Hate Crime Hoax Case - "an attorney defending Smollett claimed Judge Linn “lunged” at her in court and demanded a mistrial, which was quickly denied... Smollett was also personally chided while he testified on the stand by Judge Linn.  “Just answer his questions without arguing,” Linn admonished Smollett for criticizing the prosecutor’s understanding of social media platform Instagram"

Jussie Smollett's lawyers claim judge 'lunged' at one of them - "Attorney Heather Widell said they had the legal grounds to ask the questions and also accused the judge of visibly “snarling” in front of the jury any time he sustained an objection from the prosecution and wanted to make sure his non-verbal cues were on the record."

Jussie Smollett Testified He Did Drugs and Masturbated With His Attacker - "Smollett has repeatedly maintained that the attack was “no hoax,” including on the stand Monday, and his attorneys have sought to show jurors the brothers are untrustworthy and possibly homophobic. (Smollett is gay.)   In opening statements last week, Smollett’s lawyers also alleged that the brothers beat him up because Osundairo and his brother, Olabinjo, didn’t like him—not because they were paid to do it, according to the Associated Press. And the $3,500 check the jury saw last week that prosecutors said was payment for the brothers help in staging a hate crime was for physical training from Osundairo ahead of a music video... prosecutors have pointed to a video that apparently shows Smollett driving around with the brothers a few days before the attack, which was allegedly the day Smollett brought up the idea of doing it, according to the New York Times. Smollett testified that the drive was just them smoking blunts, actually."

Jussie Smollett blasts prosecutor for reading actor's texts that included N-word - "Webb also showed private Instagram messages between Bola Osundairo and Smollett in which the latter kept updating Bola on his whereabouts and flight delay information on the night of the attack, making the case that he was working with him to time out the planned attack. The duo had a contentious moment when Webb began reading the messages out loud. Some of the messages included the use of the N-word, prompting Smollett to interrupt the prosecutor to ask him to spell or abbreviate the word so as not to offend "every African American in this room."   Webb said that Smollett was welcome to read his own messages to the court but that he would not censor the quotations of the actor's messages. Smollett complied and the two moved on... He previously testified that he assumed the two men were White based on their use of the N-word as well as the phrase "MAGA," a reference to former President Donald Trump's campaign slogan. He denied telling the police that he was sure the attackers were White, saying he used the term "pale-skinned" in an effort not to make assumptions or be racist"

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Democrat Politicians Rushed to Defend Guilty Jussie Smollett's Hoax - "Because Smollett blamed Trump supporters as the perpetrators, his story was all too readily believed by the same press that eagerly promoted a variety of anti-Trump hoaxes, most notably the “Russia collusion” hoax, which would fall apart upon actual investigation."

Hollywood Celebrities Who Backed Jussie Smollett Silent After Guilty Verdict - "  “We have a media that says it’s a debate that whether or not what happened to Jussie Smollett is a hate crime. It’s absurd. It’s not a fucking debate,” exclaimed actress Ellen Page (now Elliot) in 2019... Scandal star Kerry Washington called for “justice for Jussie.” Well…. Even as proof of Smollett’s guilt became readily apparent, some celebrities, especially his Empire, remained in the actor’s corner, bitterly clinging to the hope that two racist Trump supporters attacked him at 2 AM on a cold Chicago winter’s night.  “No one could be that hurtful? To stage this? Right? To fuck with all of us by playing into our weaknesses & make it even harder for victims to come forward?! No one could choose to be that hurtful? Right?! RIGHT?” a perplexed Alyssa Milano asked... While Blackish star Anthony Anderson did not defend Smollett, he did celebrate the prospect of him winning an NAACP image award after corrupt prosecutors in Chicago abruptly dropped the charges against him."

Jussie Smollett Got VIP Treatment from State Attorney Kim Foxx, Special Prosecutor Daniel Webb’s Report Shows - "the public got a look at how Smollett was the beneficiary of special treatment from the very criminal justice system he’s publicly criticized.  The tell-all report, released Monday by special prosecutor Daniel Webb, reveals a series of benefits extended to the Smollett camp by Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx after the Empire actor’s charges for staging a hoax were initially dropped. According to the report, Foxx lied to the public by suggesting that there were changes to the state of evidence against Smollett between the time he was indicted and when the case was dropped by her office. Even more concerning is that Foxx continued to talk with Smollett’s sister, actress Jurnee Smollett, about the case even after the state’s attorney found out that Jussie had become a suspect in the police investigation of the crime he’d reported"

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