Hoax: Hate crime attackers: "This is MAGA country."

[Anonymous]

So, now they are saying a broken rib was not document in hospital records.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. Hope this is not a hoax. That hate crimes are on the rise in this country is frightening. Someone exploiting that is awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Hope this is not a hoax. That hate crimes are on the rise in this country is frightening. Someone exploiting that is awful.

So, you would prefer it be a hate crime over a hoax? Really?

[Anonymous]

If we are going to speculate that it was a hoax then we can certainly also speculate that there two homophobic racists who called out “This is MAGA country” while attacking a gay black man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we are going to speculate that it was a hoax then we can certainly also speculate that there two homophobic racists who called out “This is MAGA country” while attacking a gay black man.

Or, we could actually wait for the investigation lest we risk another viral incident needing to be debunked over the course of a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If we are going to speculate that it was a hoax then we can certainly also speculate that there two homophobic racists who called out “This is MAGA country” while attacking a gay black man.

Or, we could actually wait for the investigation lest we risk another viral incident needing to be debunked over the course of a week.

That’s what I thought we were doing until some jackasses on here kept trying to solve the crime with zero information.

Just sayin’....if you want to speculate in one direction we will be compelled to speculate in the other.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know about you guys, but I would much rather give victim the benefit of the doubt and risk being proven wrong then vice-versa.

[Anonymous]

Chicago police detectives on Tuesday reviewed “hundreds of hours” of footage from city and private cameras in the Streeterville neighborhood, but did not gain leads on a report of a “possible racially-charged assault and battery” involving a star of the television show “Empire.”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-ent-empire-actor-attacked-20190129-story.html

Smollett was hit and an unknown chemical substance was poured on him, according to police. A rope was wrapped around Smollett’s neck before the attackers fled the scene, police said.

According to police radio traffic, a dispatcher asked officers to check on a battery report from a caller in an apartment in the 300 block of East North Water Street just after 2:30 a.m. A friend of the actor told responding officers that “a noose was placed over the friend’s neck.” Police said Smollett took himself to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is said to be in “good condition.”

No mention of MAGA from Chicago Tribune.

[Anonymous]

Daily Mail is suggesting it's a hoax.... Just sayin'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is really terrible. I didn't realize that attacks against people for being gay are not classed as hate crimes. That must change.

This is really horrible and I find the rush to say it must not have happened disgusting. A person was brutally beaten and the first thing people do is try to pick apart the story to not believe it.

GROSS.

Lots of gay guys get beat up on hook ups gone bad. Do you know many gays?

seriously?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/16/us/hate-crimes-against-lgbt.html

Men have a bad way of being violent in sexual situations with women.... Put two men in an anonymous hook up, and its WAY more likely to be violent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about you guys, but I would much rather give victim the benefit of the doubt and risk being proven wrong then vice-versa.

Exactly. It is victimizing them all over again to treat them so doubtfully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is really terrible. I didn't realize that attacks against people for being gay are not classed as hate crimes. That must change.

This is really horrible and I find the rush to say it must not have happened disgusting. A person was brutally beaten and the first thing people do is try to pick apart the story to not believe it.

GROSS.

Lots of gay guys get beat up on hook ups gone bad. Do you know many gays?

seriously?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/16/us/hate-crimes-against-lgbt.html

Men have a bad way of being violent in sexual situations with women.... Put two men in an anonymous hook up, and its WAY more likely to be violent.

So you are saying that even though the highest number of hate crimes against any one group is against LGBT people, you want to jump to anonymous violent hook up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about you guys, but I would much rather give victim the benefit of the doubt and risk being proven wrong then vice-versa.

Exactly. It is victimizing them all over again to treat them so doubtfully.

No broken rib
No chemical burns
No video evidence
Backtrack on MAGA
Identifying men in ski masks as white: how?

[Anonymous]

Also his agent and representatives will not comment. They really should.

Don Lemon spoke with him off the record.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. MAGA is such trash.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/01/29/empire-star-jussie-smollett-assaulted-possible-homophobic-attack/2709986002/

“attackers yelled, "This is MAGA country."“