Hollywood Actor Jussie Smollett Facing Prison Time

splashuum · 20-02-2019 8:01pm #1

Jussie Smollett (best known for his work in Empire) has claimed he has been victim of a serious hate crime. His statement included that he was attacked by two white MAGA supporters. He claimed they shouted hateful racist remarks at him along with pouring bleach in his eyes. It has now transpired that he likely fabricated the entire story and paid men to attack him( two Nigerian men). He now faces up to three years in prison if these alleged events aren’t proven to be fake. Does Jussie deserve prison time for this? And Is Smollett the only one guilty of a “hate crime” here?

Rubberchikken · 20-02-2019 8:07pm

if he did dream this up hes definitely guilty of gross stupidity. ive genuinely never heard of him or his show but he sounds like no great loss tbh.

lertsnim · 20-02-2019 8:09pm

What a stupid moron. I hope they throw the book at him.

Your Face · 20-02-2019 8:10pm

Googled him. Saw who he was.

He'll be fine.

20-02-2019 8:18pm

A cynical ploy for victim status backfired. Good for him.

Chris_Heilong · 20-02-2019 8:24pm

Really shows how many are so willing to support that the "Other side" are the bad guys. A bit like the MAGA kids and the Indian guy.

Silentcorner · 20-02-2019 8:42pm

American Media, from Hollywood to New York, is in the toilet!

Trump will win in 2020...they (by they I mean the established press and established politicians ) haven't learned a thing!

Ipso · 20-02-2019 8:49pm

Silentcorner wrote: »

American Media, from Hollywood to New York, is in the toilet!

Trump will win in 2020...they (by they I mean the established press and established politicians ) haven't learned a thing!

Yeah, they need to take their heads out of their asses. The sooner the “resistance” realises their just the second coming of the tea party, the better.

LessOutragePlz · 20-02-2019 8:53pm

He deserves to be locked up for lying and continue to lie when he was initially questioned about it since it will serve as a good deterrent for others not to do the same. Whereas if they go easy on him and he gets a lenient sentence it will make people think that they too can also get away with it.

SoundsRight · 20-02-2019 8:55pm

Confined with lots of sexually frustrated young men. I'm sure he would just dread that.

El_Bee · 20-02-2019 8:55pm

I'm surprised none of the journalists who covered this haven't been sanctioned for doing absolutely no digging and taking the whole thing at face value.

statesaver · 20-02-2019 8:55pm

Jesus, what a silly way to end your career.

Scarinae · 20-02-2019 8:58pm

Do they have any idea why he would stage this sort of attack? Was it meant to boost his fame or something?

(I'll admit that I'd never heard of him)

statesaver · 20-02-2019 8:59pm

El_Bee wrote: »

I'm surprised none of the journalists who covered this haven't been sanctioned for doing absolutely no digging and taking the whole thing at face value.

Journalists ? Just like here in Ireland, US journos are activists.

No such thing as investigating journalism any more. Group think and fear of being called a racist has killed that.

Grayson · 20-02-2019 9:04pm

El_Bee wrote: »

I'm surprised none of the journalists who covered this haven't been sanctioned for doing absolutely no digging and taking the whole thing at face value.

You mean reporting the police reports and when the police uncovered more information, they reported that too.

You can't blame the media for reporting the news.

orourkeda1977 · 20-02-2019 9:27pm

El_Bee wrote: »

I'm surprised none of the journalists who covered this haven't been sanctioned for doing absolutely no digging and taking the whole thing at face value.

Welcome to the world of Journalism. You've only scratched the surface with that comment too.

mad muffin · 20-02-2019 9:35pm

Fresh meat…

orourkeda1977 · 20-02-2019 9:37pm

mad muffin wrote: »

Fresh meat…

Theyre going to get right up in his booty.

goose2005 · 20-02-2019 9:42pm

Scarinae wrote: »

Do they have any idea why he would stage this sort of attack? Was it meant to boost his fame or something? (I'll admit that I'd never heard of him)

Yes, he was going to be written out of "Empire", well, he's definitely out of it now

debok · 20-02-2019 10:19pm

Scarinae wrote: »

Do they have any idea why he would stage this sort of attack? Was it meant to boost his fame or something? (I'll admit that I'd never heard of him)

Think he had music album coming out as well.

Billy86 · 20-02-2019 10:21pm

What an absolute eejit. Deserves jail time for wasting police time, and the chance he may have actually wound up getting someone sent to jail had anyone matched well with descriptions.

The Crowman · 20-02-2019 10:31pm

splashuum wrote: »

Jussie Smollett (best known for his work in Empire) has claimed he has been victim of a serious hate crime. His statement included that he was attacked by two white MAGA supporters. He claimed they shouted hateful racist remarks at him along with pouring bleach in his eyes. It has now transpired that he likely fabricated the entire story and paid men to attack him( two Nigerian men). He now faces up to three years in prison if these alleged events aren’t proven to be fake. Does Jussie deserve prison time for this? And Is Smollett the only one guilty of a “hate crime” here?

I had strong suspicions about his story from the start based on a number of similar past cases.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 20-02-2019 10:32pm

Grayson wrote: »

You mean reporting the police reports and when the police uncovered more information, they reported that too.

You can't blame the media for reporting the news.

The American media often dismissed as a conspiracy theory any suggestion of this being staged.

20-02-2019 10:39pm

El_Bee wrote: »

I'm surprised none of the journalists who covered this haven't been sanctioned for doing absolutely no digging and taking the whole thing at face value.

theyre too busy to make outrage like the Motson or Neeson incidents recently and browsing loony's on twitter saying theyre outraged or pushing identity politics

Fr_Dougal · 20-02-2019 10:55pm

What a knob.

Outlaw Pete · 20-02-2019 11:05pm

Massive victmhood culture in western society today. People are elevated in the eyes of so many when they claim to have been the victim of sexism, racism, transism etc etc.

These people can just refer to oppression and get whoops and cheers from a crowd. So is it then any wonder when many make it up that they have been attacked, assaulted, or not paid enough because they're female.

The latter the lie Sarah Silverman told to get herself a little extra social cache with that section of society.

So far there has been little consequences for those who have lied. If this guy has done what he appears to have, that may change.

Itssoeasy · 20-02-2019 11:52pm

He's now officially a suspect in the hate crime attack he reported. I have never heard of the guy before in my life but all of twitter was standing by him and sending the usual repsponses. Well don't they look stupid ? I mean yes people shouldn't be discriminated based on the usual areas that people are in the world, but by the same token that doesn't give anyone the right to shout "discrimination" for any old reason at all. I don't care about your race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation or any of that. If you're a sound head in my dealings with you I've not problem with you, but if you're a bollocks, then who or what you are isn't a defence. I mean how is this going to help the next person who is legitimately attacked ? Is this going to make the next person who is the victim of a hate crime more or less likely to report it ? It might and that's wrong too.

VicMackey1 · 21-02-2019 11:43am

Smollett has now been charged with filing a false police report. The FBI is also reportedly investigating him.

A lot of people are going to have egg on their faces after this! They couldn't help but jump on the bandwagon to have a dig at Trump. Nancy Pelosi has deleted her tweet in support of Smollett. Presidential candidates Cory Booker and Kamala Harris have disappeared into the hedges after calling the attack "a modern-day lynching". Will they ever learn?

SJW Ellen Page is looking a bit silly too!

Underground · 21-02-2019 12:01pm

The US media and Liberal elites really are absolutely awful. I mean it makes our own media look like the best thing since sliced bread. They really have not learned a damn thing since Trump was elected.

As soon as some perceived minority claims to have been the victim of prejudice at the hands of the White man they just take it and run with it, gone be with the facts.

They really do not give the slightest sh*t about the truth, it's all just "entertainment" now under the guise of news. Off the top of my head: Shaun King (more than once), the Covington incident, any amount of #metoo accusers, the list goes on.

The worst one I can remember is when the CNN panel did their little "I can't breathe" thing in support of Black Lives Matter after someone was killed by the police who (surprise surprise) turned out to be a scumbag up to no good. I'm out.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-02-2019 12:01pm

Tbh as soon as I heard MAGA hats I became suspicious.

I'd say it immediately threw up red flags for the police too, with the amount of false reports they receive.

Two ''rednecks'' as Smollett described wandering the streets of Chicago at 2am in sub zero temps looking for a gay black man to lynch.

Cienciano · 21-02-2019 12:02pm

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Massive victmhood culture in western society today. People are elevated in the eyes of so many when they claim to have been the victim of sexism, racism, transism etc etc.

These people can just refer to oppression and get whoops and cheers from a crowd. So is it then any wonder when many make it up that they have been attacked, assaulted, or not paid enough because they're female.

The latter the lie Sarah Silverman told to get herself a little extra social cache with that section of society.

So far there has been little consequences for those who have lied. If this guy has done what he appears to have, that may change.

Couldn't agree more, the victimhood culture is inbelievable. Everyone wants to be one and if you're not, fake it.
On a similar note, if you're successful, especially in America, you have to pretend you had it tough when you were young and no one believed in you

Sabre0001 · 21-02-2019 12:04pm

Oh good, another thread where we get discussion about "sides" rather than the incident.

Trevor Noah on point - "too many people jumping on a story that confirms your biases"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85hdWttSavI

On topic, this guy deserves to have the book thrown at him (he says as a lefty libtard, snowflake, SJW :rolleyes:)

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-02-2019 12:12pm

Cienciano wrote: »

Couldn't agree more, the victimhood culture is inbelievable. Everyone wants to be one and if you're not, fake it.
On a similar note, if you're successful, especially in America, you have to pretend you had it tough when you were young and no one believed in you

It's like nature flipped on its head.

What right minded person aspires to be seen as weak and fragile?

98q76e12hrflnk · 21-02-2019 12:12pm

Another libtard bits the dust:D

evil_seed · 21-02-2019 12:18pm

Reminds me of the scene in The Soprano's of the rapper that wanted to get famous so he hired the guys to shoot him and they shot him in the ass.

Autecher · 21-02-2019 12:24pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Two ''rednecks'' as Smollett described wandering the streets of Chicago at 2am in sub zero temps looking for a gay black man to lynch.

Nigerian rednecks they were too :rolleyes:

Cienciano · 21-02-2019 12:28pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's like nature flipped on its head.

What right minded person aspires to be seen as weak and fragile?

Even Donald and Ivanka Trump have tried to make out they had it tough. They battled the odds and became successful. It's weird.

gmisk · 21-02-2019 12:35pm

Cienciano wrote: »

Even Donald and Ivanka Trump have tried to make out they had it tough. They battled the odds and became successful. It's weird.

Of course Donald has had it tough, it cant have been easy growing up looking like a fat wotsit.

is_that_so · 21-02-2019 12:37pm

Cienciano wrote: »

Even Donald and Ivanka Trump have tried to make out they had it tough. They battled the odds and became successful. It's weird.

Everyone loves a rags to riches story, however made-up -American dream and all that. Like all major IT companies started in a garage!

The White Wolf · 21-02-2019 1:29pm

Trump will ride this all the way to 2020 and beyond.

Imagine how self absorbed you'd have to be to try and pull this.

Boom_Bap · 21-02-2019 1:34pm

What's even more bizzare.

The 2 guys had also acted in Empire.
The night before, they gave it a trial run, and are caught on camera doing so!

McDermotX · 21-02-2019 1:44pm

Turned himself in now.

What a gimp ! Not to mention those running after the bandwagon.

Mickeroo · 21-02-2019 1:47pm

Well **** me, looks like he was one of the kids in The Mighty Ducks.

mcmoustache · 21-02-2019 1:58pm

The idea that there were MAGA heads wandering around Chicago of all places with a noose was fishy enough. You might as well wear a swastica in Tel Aviv.

And or them to be out in -20 degree temperatures was even more far-fetched.

This guy needs jailing for the false report and some extra added on for being such a dumbass.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 21-02-2019 2:01pm

Silentcorner wrote: »

American Media, from Hollywood to New York, is in the toilet!

Trump will win in 2020...they (by they I mean the established press and established politicians ) haven't learned a thing!

The US media has reported everything to do with this event, no? From initial reports of the attack to the current suspicions about the veracity of the story.

Odhinn · 21-02-2019 2:04pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

The US media has reported everything to do with this event, no? From initial reports of the attack to the current suspicions about the veracity of the story.

He sent himself a hate letter. It got no traction, so he went to stage II of his "cunning plan".

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/19/jessie-smollett-letter-brothers-attack/

TheValeyard · 21-02-2019 2:21pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Well **** me, looks like he was one of the kids in The Mighty Ducks.

Quack, quack, quack
..THE FLYING V

Autecher · 21-02-2019 2:55pm

He tweeted this less than 1 month ago

:o
https://twitter.com/JussieSmollett/status/1089534414546239495

And from the comments...

valoren · 21-02-2019 3:04pm

Scarinae wrote: »

Do they have any idea why he would stage this sort of attack? Was it meant to boost his fame or something? (I'll admit that I'd never heard of him)

Presumably a flagrantly narcissistic attention seeking ploy designed to elicit sympathy and victim hood from a hate crime which backfired.
He was stopped in 2007 for a DUI and gave his younger brothers name and signed under that name trying to throw him under the bus. He was caught out and charged.

inforfun · 21-02-2019 3:09pm

https://twitter.com/CharlieDeMar/status/1098335299829145600?

JP Liz V1 · 21-02-2019 5:52pm

evil_seed wrote: »

Reminds me of the scene in The Soprano's of the rapper that wanted to get famous so he hired the guys to shoot him and they shot him in the ass.

He is already famous, the show Empire does well in ratings, music albums etc.,

He is idiot though for this

Hollywood Actor Jussie Smollett Facing Prison Time

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