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Good point Martin.

This was the Streeterville area. No way this happened. This is the area with the Hancock building, some Lake Shore Drive homes, the residential neighborhoods are highly upscale. I think the Gold Coast. The Hancock tower. If he was at the Subway on MI Avenue (it’s 24 hours).....there are security cameras everywhere and the CPD says they can find nothing. They are “extending the scope” of the search.
Let’s wait and see but one does not carry bleach, wear a ski mask and have a rope at 2am. It’s also not friendly to MAGA people or anti-gay. It is not seen as anti-black either.
I’m not saying he’s lying. Something, somewhere happened to him. It seems to me something just does not fit with the story.

So you don’t think he was attacked?

If an attack actually happened, and I’m not saying it didn’t, I would need some concrete evidence like security video or independent witnesses to corroborate the incident as told by the victim. Chicago isn’t known for its white, racist, bleach & noose wielders to be roaming the streets at 2 AM looking for gay celebrities to assault. I’m not a betting man but if I were, I would bet I wouldn’t find any similar incidents occurring in that area matching this one in recent memory. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
We’ll just have to wait and see.

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Well people could come from anywhere and attack someone, doesn’t need to be from Chicago, although it’s a city of 6 million people, so I’m sure it has some racist, homophobic scum there. But you are right we will see what the cameras show( hopefully)

So you think he wasn’t attacked?

I'm sure he was attacked.

Me too, as for the rest of it, will have to see, there has got to be security cameras around there so we should have a better idea.

Hopefully.

I hope it's not true, but I also hope that someone wouldn't lie about something like that. Just seems really fishy to me, and usually when things seem fishy to me they turn out to be. I just hate that people like Kamala Harris have to add their 2 cents to get their name on the spotlight. It's about him, not them.

Well unless he is mentally deranged, he was attacked, why we don’t know? , and nobody should jump the gun yet.

Yes, we definitely need to learn from past mistakes.

thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/chicago-police-say-jussie-smollett-attack-looking-like-hoax

I know, I have a bad feeling about this.

It all sounded too convenient and over the top.

Don't they see that every time they push fake news it backfires and hurts their cause?

Over the top is right! If a hoax, he must have deep psychological problems!

Don’t forget the rope.

Right, right, cause we're bringing back lynchings.

Who carries around a bottle of Clorox?

Probably the kind of guys that run around with rope and ski masks

And why was he out at that hour? Who gets a desire for a Subway sandwich at 2 AM? Maybe he was looking for Jarod?

Think he was looking for some action.

Remember Jim McGreevey?

One report said he was leaving a restaurant.

Just thinking out loud here, but maybe it’s best to keep our powder dry before we know what happened. If it’s true, we don’t want to be on the wrong side of this. If it isn’t, let the left attack first like Cov so we can re-frame it.

Yep, wait and see.

Subway. Jim McGreevy who had a large naked portrait of him and his lover?

Right and he drove to the hospital with the rope around his neck? Seems odd.

Yes odd.

If the story dies in the next few days you will know the answer.

Chicago police told CNN that Smollett initially did not tell them about the heinous comments hurled at him — such as “This is MAGA country” — when he initially reported the crime. Investigators reached out to him after hearing about them in the media. Smollett then confirmed what his attackers said in an ancillary interview with agents assigned to the case.

“The MAGA” comment has mysteriously been removed from original story (although twitter still has it). Surveillance has shown nothing yet.

This is sadly, starting to look like a hoax. Police have gone through numerous surveillance videos and found nothing. He was in a very good part of the city. He had bleach on him but got in his car and either drove to a friend’s and then the hospital or straight from the hospital. Asked the cops to turn off their body cams before giving them his statement. They didn’t get bleach in his eyes? Nose?
The police announcements on this appear to be questioning it too.
However, if it’s true and perpetrators are caught, put them in the general population with the caught who can dispense real justice.

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As info comes streaming in, does anyone have anything supporting the initial allegation?

This is strange
www.tmz.com/2019/01/30/jussie-smollett-declined-extra-security-homophobic-racist-attack/

Very odd.

I mean, if you are trying to make a case for it being true.....he had a threat. People have stalkers who both hate them and love them. Maybe a couple of drunk privileged college kids? The attack occurred near the attacker’s car and one remembered bleach was in the car?
All things are possible.

If you are trying to make a case against it. It is a highly upscale area. It is not MAGA friendly. There are cameras everywhere but they can’t seem to find the attack? He didn’t call the police from where it happened yet kept the rope around his neck? There’s more.


The police probably won’t say if they found he is lying. If I was lying, I would be persecuted. If they find the attack, at this point, they will release the footage.

If Al Sharpton showed up at my side.....I would ask him to leave.

twitter.com/jussiesmollett/status/951681671027404800?s=21

I wonder if he was angry at the President and conservatives to the point where he may have been less than truthful. Obviously, I’d never say that, but I could see how someone could make the case.

I have thoughts about being out at 2am at a sandwich shop. Maybe he was looking for a special friend that turned on him. Being beat up he may have concocted a story at buddies house before the hospital. I think the story will die in the press if they discover it was a hoax.

Didthe MAGA guy rip off his Habib.

That shop is kind of down in a nice area and it’s 24 hours because they have the customers, coming back from pubs etc.

Crazy, who carries around a bottle of bleach? Wears a Maga hat over their hoodie? Saying the N word in Chicago is a normal occurrence. I hope they catch these people!

Me too!

Next they’ll say the perp has an orange tint to his hair.

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Isn’t it freezing in Chicago now? Are Subways open at 2 am? Doesn’t he have room service at his hotel? Could you recognize him - is he that well known? I’m sure he was wearing a hat. Are people walking around in Chicago with rope and bleach at 2am in sub zero weather? And when did Chicago become MAGA country?

It was Monday night before the big freeze

Well he was in the hospital, something happened, let’s wait and see before you judge.

Exactly.

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