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Hoax: Hate crime attackers: "This is MAGA country."
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Anonymous
Maybe not "black privilege," but it sure seems like "celebrity privilege," |
Anonymous
It's behind a pay wall. Can you post the relevant part of the article? |
Anonymous
The guy is an imbecile but I’m fine with them dropping this.....it would have been unnecessarily divisive. |
Anonymous
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I don't get it - what about the grand jury indictment??
so he did some community service and that makes up for this? |
Anonymous
The amount he owes to the Chicago PD far exceeds the $10,000 he is forfeiting. |
Anonymous
| He’s a Cooperating witness on a much bigger case, imho |
Anonymous
Celebrity privilege. |
Anonymous
As TV actor and want-to-be-victim Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty on Thursday to staging his very own fake hate crime, I thought about someone else on trial in this case: Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. The state’s attorney hasn’t been charged with anything and won’t be. She doesn’t have a formal role in the Smollett fake-hate-crime case, now that she’s recused herself owing to a conflict of interest. But she stands in the court of public opinion after a remarkable Tribune story by reporters Megan Crepeau and Jeremy Gorner. It is an account of how Foxx was contacted in the Smollett case by a politically connected lawyer close to Chicago’s most prominent political families, the Obamas and Emanuels. That lawyer, Tina Tchen, was chief of staff for former first lady Michelle Obama, and she is a friend of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s wife, Amy Rule. Tchen was apparently a go-between for someone in the Smollett family. There was literally an “omg” moment in the texts, because Foxx did what was asked of her: She lobbied Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to drop the Smollett case and push it over to the FBI. State’s Attorney Kim Foxx asked Chicago’s top cop to turn Jussie Smollett probe over to FBI, texts and emails show She did so as Smollett’s heroic story — that he was the victim of a hate crime committed by supporters of President Donald Trump — was being unraveled by Chicago detectives. So how should Foxx plead on this one? Does she plead stupidity, and say she was blinded by political lights, by someone close to the Obamas, and say she lost her way and would like to beg mercy? Would Foxx ever give a Chicago police officer that kind of break? No. Most cops would laugh if you asked them that. “Spoke to the Superintendent Johnson,” Foxx said in an email to Tchen on Feb. 1 obtained by reporters. “I convinced him to Reach out to FBI to ask that they take over the investigation.” That day, Foxx texted a Smollett relative. “Spoke to the superintendent earlier, he made the ask,” Foxx wrote. “Trying to figure out logistics. I’ll keep you posted.” “Omg this would be a huge victory,” the Smollett relative replied. “I make no guarantees, but I’m trying,” Foxx replied. “I understand,” the Smollett relative typed. “I appreciate the effort.” Omg. Omg, Kim Foxx, where do I go with this? It’s easy. People reach out all the time in politics. You’ve got a guy who’s got a guy, that’s the Chicago Way. |
Anonymous
He has lived a blameless life. |
Anonymous
Maybe the cops and DA were caught in a lie? Perhaps they planted evidence or fabricated crimes? It wouldn’t be the first time. |
Anonymous
| Black racist prosecution. |
Anonymous
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Democrat privilege in action
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Anonymous
| So he gets off Scott free completely unrepentant |
Anonymous
Wow. |
Anonymous
| This is what people are talking about when they say "Chicago politics." |