Remember when that dude mailed pipe bombs to well known Democrats?This attack seems to have required a level of planning that I wouldn't attribute to a couple of dumbass Trump-supporting racists.
Nothing is unlikely anymore.
Remember when that dude mailed pipe bombs to well known Democrats?This attack seems to have required a level of planning that I wouldn't attribute to a couple of dumbass Trump-supporting racists.
Some folks think emulating some trashcan CSI episode is of more importance than simply listening to and believing victims.Don't even have the decency to keep it to one topic. Gotta climb to the top of the thread and scream how big of an asshole they are.
Well, somehow they think they're going to crack the case before the FBI does, based on the same news paper articles all of us have read. How a man staged his own racial attack and broke his own rib, and didn't even know he was simultaneously being staked out by two fans of the show.Some folks think emulating some trashcan CSI episode is of more importance than simply listening to and believing victims.
Must be nice to be privileged enough to treat real life hate crimes like TV showsWell, somehow they think they're going to crack the case before the FBI does, based on the same news paper articles all of us have read. How a man staged his own racial attack and broke his own rib, and didn't even know he was simultaneously being staked out by two fans of the show.
the "concern" about how "suspicious" this attack was is disgusting
Considering you knew so many of the other details but somehow didn't know that threatening letters were sent in the mail, which is the entire reason the FBI is currently involved (federal jurisdiction due to mailing hate speech to an assault victim)? Now THAT arouses skepticism.Thanks. The threatening letters are more persuasive of the attack being real than the posts implying that I am a racist.
the "concern" about how "suspicious" this attack was is disgusting
In Chicago, at 2:00 am, he is recognized by two White Trump supporters wearing MAGA hats?
And the attackers are in possession of rope and a bottle of bleach, in freezing temperatures?
They attack him, place the noose around his neck, pour the bleach (or other liquid chemical, hurl racial and homophobic slurs at him and say "this is MAGA country" and then walk away?
How did they recognize him? How did they happen to be there at 2:00 am when he decided to go to Subway? Were they waiting on him and hoping that he would leave his home at that hour?
The surveillance the police have found shows Smollett returning to his building with a white rope around his neck. But so far, there hasn't been any surveillance found depicting the attack.
A neighbor says she took her dog out for a walk around midnight and saw a man that looked like a "redneck" smoking a cigarette outside the building.
How did this man know Smollett lives there? Is that public knowledge?
It's fair to be skeptical about this.
And someone else in this thread is asking for people who are being skeptical about this to just admit that they don't care about black people.
Of course I care, but this story just seems suspicious.
Considering you knew so many of the other details but somehow didn't know that threatening letters were sent in the mail, which is the entire reason the FBI is currently involved (federal jurisdiction due to mailing hate speech to an assault victim)? Now THAT arouses skepticism.
One of two reactions to this post is possible:
1) you feel attacked for people not trusting your account of your own beliefs or that you were innocently suspicious
in which case you perhaps have a better understanding now of how absolutely revolting it is to cast doubt on a victim of assault, or...
2) you're panicking because you got caught and you'll lash out with feigned indignation
in which case, sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, huh?
Well isn't that interesting. Perhaps your suspicion should have prompted you to look for more details instead of just casting doubt on the victim without them? It's not like this isn't a highly-publicized hate crime investigation where that information wasn't immediately available. Heck, even the Era thread that originally reported the attack had these details.Actually it appears I missed a few details.
1) I thought the current report was that the attackers were wearing MAGA hats. It seems the latest report does not include that detail.
2) I didn't know anything about the letters.
3) I didn't know that Smollett's agent was on the phone with him until earlier today.
Really, trump supporters have gone on premeditated mass shootings and shipped bombs to multiple people... why would anyone honestly be skeptical that they would plan a nonsensically violent attack?
The "skeptics" won't be convinced until they see bodies and then they'll make excuses for the killers.
An honest to god mindset that when black people complain about racist actions, it's an attempt to "get" white america. That's why diet racists like vonnegut up there think that a completely unrelated black woman claiming she was assaulted by white men when it was actually black men who did it, somehow makes this specific incident, "suspicious." Because, while he won't outright say it, what he's very clearly implying is that there is a chance this is being made up to stroke some anti-white people movement.
An honest to god mindset that when black people complain about racist actions, it's an attempt to "get" white america. That's why diet racists like vonnegut up there think that a completely unrelated black woman claiming she was assaulted by white men when it was actually black men who did it, somehow makes this specific incident, "suspicious." Because, while he won't outright say it, what he's very clearly implying is that there is a chance this is being made up to stroke some anti-white people movement.
all it shows is that your real life sucks and you like to make yourself feel better by passing judgment about people online.
talk about a lack of self awareness to post something like this, after pages and pages of clueless posts as though anybody gives half a shit about your "concern" or "suspicion"
So are these people:That's because you assume I'm a racist. I'm a liberal who votes Democrat in all election
So are these people:
You being a "liberal" and voting for Democrats doesn't mean a good goddamn thing.
the story a few months ago about a young black girl who was shot to death while sitting in her family's car, and her mother reported that she saw a white man driving away in his truck...It turned out that the people who shot the child were two black men.
A reporter asked President Fuckface about his thoughts on what happened to Jussie and he just goes into talking about the wall.
Holy shit, I have never seen this before, and it's fucking incredible. I am a huge EarthBound fan. Thank you.
During his concert Saturday night at West Hollywood's Troubadour club, Smollett told fans that he wanted to clarify that following the attack, he was bruised but his ribs were neither cracked nor broken. He also said that he went to the doctor immediately, but he wasn't hospitalized, and physicians in both Chicago and Los Angeles cleared him to perform at the concert.
Update - Jussie never went to the hospital, and he suffered no broken bones in the attack.
From CNN:
Update - Jussie never went to the hospital, and he suffered no broken bones in the attack.
From CNN:
I think he's just saying he went to his doctor rather than to a hospital as had been reported. But you're right, that's not clear.It's been clear that the early report of a broken rib was erroneous, since no subsequent story I saw mentioned it. But I don't know if that statement means he didn't go to the hospital to be examined, just that he wasn't admitted.
I think he's just saying he went to his doctor rather than to a hospital as had been reported. But you're right, that's not clear.
What? The reporting around this attack has been truly bizarre.
Oh man. That is not the bump I wanted to read :(https://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/02/...fs4-o1RNiDdcNpDyTukqV54_6Qjr4oeOrdYtM1QTi99hA
" Chicago police today are questioning two persons of interest in the Jussie Smollett hate crime investigation, according to a department spokesperson. Both are African-American. Smollett, who police say "has been questioned throughout" their investigation is also being interrogated."
"TMZ reported that the persons of interest are an actor who has appeared with Smollett on Fox television's Empire and a person who was traveling with the second actor. These individuals are believed to be the "potential persons of interest" who were seen in low-quality images released by Chicago police days after the alleged attack, according to a police spokesperson.
TMZ also reported that police used "rideshare and/or taxicab records" to identify the "persons of interest" and to track their movements on the night of the purported attack."
The story gets crazier by the day...
https://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/02/...fs4-o1RNiDdcNpDyTukqV54_6Qjr4oeOrdYtM1QTi99hA
" Chicago police today are questioning two persons of interest in the Jussie Smollett hate crime investigation, according to a department spokesperson. Both are African-American. Smollett, who police say "has been questioned throughout" their investigation is also being interrogated."
"TMZ reported that the persons of interest are an actor who has appeared with Smollett on Fox television's Empire and a person who was traveling with the second actor. These individuals are believed to be the "potential persons of interest" who were seen in low-quality images released by Chicago police days after the alleged attack, according to a police spokesperson.
TMZ also reported that police used "rideshare and/or taxicab records" to identify the "persons of interest" and to track their movements on the night of the purported attack."
The story gets crazier by the day...
The site linked looks janky and I can't attest to it's legitimacy but it clearly states he enlisted his friends to attack him and lays out some pretty damning claims
The site linked looks janky and I can't attest to it's legitimacy but it clearly states he enlisted his friends to attack him and lays out some pretty damning claims
I really hope this isnt the case.The site linked looks janky and I can't attest to it's legitimacy but it clearly states he enlisted his friends to attack him and lays out some pretty damning claims