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    Default Judge allows Chicago suit against Jussie Smollett to proceed

    Judge allows Chicago suit against Jussie Smollett to proceed

    A federal judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss Chicago's lawsuit against former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett.

    U.S. District Virginia Kendall's ruling means that Chicago's suit that seeks to recoup $130,000 that city officials say the police department spent investigating Smollett's claim that he was a victim of a racist and homophobic attack in January can proceed.

    The motion by the former "Empire" actor's attorneys was a longshot because their argument boiled down to the contention that Smollett shouldn't be required to reimburse the police department because he couldn't have known how much time and money would be spent investigating his allegations.

    The police conducted an exhaustive investigation that included nearly 1,900 hours of overtime as they looked into Smollett's claim that he was beaten by two masked men on a downtown Chicago street in January and that they used racist and homophobic slurs and looped a noose around his neck before fleeing.

    For days, detectives scoured the neighborhood for witnesses, analyzed dozens of videos from surveillance cameras on the street, on buildings and inside taxi cabs, and interviewed store owners in search of who might have sold the suspects the rope.

    When Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced charges against Smollett, he angrily made clear the stakes of the investigation and why it was so important that police solve the case, saying that Smollett "took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career."

    In March, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's office announced a stunning decision to drop the 16 felony counts related to making a false report, which angered Johnson and then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel and led to the city's lawsuit against Smollett and to a county judge's decision to appoint a special prosecutor to examine the way Foxx's office handled the investigation.

    Although Smollett has maintained his innocence, the police department is adamant that there is a mountain of evidence that shows Smollett staged the attack with two brothers he knew. And with the appointment of the special prosecutor, there remains the possibility that Smollett could be charged again with staging the attack.
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    Quote Originally Posted by USFREEDOM911 View Post
    Judge allows Chicago suit against Jussie Smollett to proceed

    A federal judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss Chicago's lawsuit against former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett.

    U.S. District Virginia Kendall's ruling means that Chicago's suit that seeks to recoup $130,000 that city officials say the police department spent investigating Smollett's claim that he was a victim of a racist and homophobic attack in January can proceed.

    The motion by the former "Empire" actor's attorneys was a longshot because their argument boiled down to the contention that Smollett shouldn't be required to reimburse the police department because he couldn't have known how much time and money would be spent investigating his allegations.

    The police conducted an exhaustive investigation that included nearly 1,900 hours of overtime as they looked into Smollett's claim that he was beaten by two masked men on a downtown Chicago street in January and that they used racist and homophobic slurs and looped a noose around his neck before fleeing.

    For days, detectives scoured the neighborhood for witnesses, analyzed dozens of videos from surveillance cameras on the street, on buildings and inside taxi cabs, and interviewed store owners in search of who might have sold the suspects the rope.

    When Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced charges against Smollett, he angrily made clear the stakes of the investigation and why it was so important that police solve the case, saying that Smollett "took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career."

    In March, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's office announced a stunning decision to drop the 16 felony counts related to making a false report, which angered Johnson and then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel and led to the city's lawsuit against Smollett and to a county judge's decision to appoint a special prosecutor to examine the way Foxx's office handled the investigation.

    Although Smollett has maintained his innocence, the police department is adamant that there is a mountain of evidence that shows Smollett staged the attack with two brothers he knew. And with the appointment of the special prosecutor, there remains the possibility that Smollett could be charged again with staging the attack.
    Didn't Horizontal Harris and Spartacus Booker call what happened to Jussie a modern day lynching? Since he planned the actions himself, is it safe to say he lynched himself?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    Didn't Horizontal Harris and Spartacus Booker call what happened to Jussie a modern day lynching? Since he planned the actions himself, is it safe to say he lynched himself?
    Wouldn't that make it a suicide??
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    Quote Originally Posted by USFREEDOM911 View Post
    Wouldn't that make it a suicide??
    A suicidal lynching? I guess that can happen.

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    who fuckin cares besides cultists?

    keep the diversions coming, Trump's still getting impeached

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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    who fuckin cares besides cultists?

    keep the diversions coming, Trump's still getting impeached
    Keep us posted...

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