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Chicago Police Shoot Down Reports Jussie Smollett Staged Attack
Police say they have “no evidence” to support the reports of a hoax.
Julia Arciga
02.14.19 8:18 PM ET
Chicago Police have shot down two local media reports claiming that  its detectives thought “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett had staged his  alleged hate attack.
In an extraordinary step, the police  department’s top spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, put out a statement on  Twitter that said: “Media reports about the Empire incident being a hoax  are unconfirmed by case detectives”
He  said the police superintendent had contacted one of the stations to  “state on the record that we have no evidence to support their reporting  and their supposed CPD sources are uninformed and inaccurate.”
That  came after CBS and ABC affiliates in Chicago quoted unidentified  sources as saying that detectives either believed or were investigating  whether Smollett had staged the incident with the help of two men.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chicago-police-shoot-down-reports-jussie-smollett-staged-attack-2