Dumpington
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I'm pleased to see that the FBI and Justice Department are currently investigating the shocking, inexplicable dismissal of a Chicago grand jury’s 16 felony counts against actor Jussie Smollett.
There have been dueling-demonstrations in Chicago this week. The local Fraternal Order of Police protested Cook County state attorney Kim Foxx’s velvet treatment of Smollett, while, the Reverend Jesse Jackson rallied those who, somehow, still believe the Empire cast member’s bogus-story.
Prosecutors let Smollett off the hook, despite getting their man. “I do not believe he is innocent,” First Assistant State’s Attorney Joe Magats said as he let Smollett go free last Tuesday. “Based on the facts and the evidence,” Kim Foxx admitted to WLS-TV, “this office believes that they could prove him guilty.” Regardless, she called their compassionate treatment of Smollett “a just outcome based on the circumstances.”
Jussie has never admitted guilt — step one in a typical leniency arrangement. In fact, he defiantly pleaded innocent to stunned courthouse journalists: “I’ve been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.”
His attorneys agree. “It is the mayor and the police chief who owe Jussie — owe him an apology — for dragging an innocent man’s character through the mud. Jussie has paid enough.”
Smollett gleefully stirred this country’s already steaming pot of sociopolitical division. The last thing America needed was another reason for blacks and whites, straights and gays, and liberals and conservatives to distrust each other. Rather than promote healing, Smollett tightened tensions for more than three weeks.
The FBI and Justice Department announced last week that they are still on this case. If Smollett mailed himself the menacing letter that he said he received before his “attack,” he will be ripe for a federal mail-fraud and postal-threat prosecution. Let’s hope that officials find Smollett’s fingerprints all over that envelope and his DNA on the dried saliva on its seal. If this sends Smollett to federal prison for several years, then God Bless America.
There have been dueling-demonstrations in Chicago this week. The local Fraternal Order of Police protested Cook County state attorney Kim Foxx’s velvet treatment of Smollett, while, the Reverend Jesse Jackson rallied those who, somehow, still believe the Empire cast member’s bogus-story.
Prosecutors let Smollett off the hook, despite getting their man. “I do not believe he is innocent,” First Assistant State’s Attorney Joe Magats said as he let Smollett go free last Tuesday. “Based on the facts and the evidence,” Kim Foxx admitted to WLS-TV, “this office believes that they could prove him guilty.” Regardless, she called their compassionate treatment of Smollett “a just outcome based on the circumstances.”
Jussie has never admitted guilt — step one in a typical leniency arrangement. In fact, he defiantly pleaded innocent to stunned courthouse journalists: “I’ve been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.”
His attorneys agree. “It is the mayor and the police chief who owe Jussie — owe him an apology — for dragging an innocent man’s character through the mud. Jussie has paid enough.”
Smollett gleefully stirred this country’s already steaming pot of sociopolitical division. The last thing America needed was another reason for blacks and whites, straights and gays, and liberals and conservatives to distrust each other. Rather than promote healing, Smollett tightened tensions for more than three weeks.
The FBI and Justice Department announced last week that they are still on this case. If Smollett mailed himself the menacing letter that he said he received before his “attack,” he will be ripe for a federal mail-fraud and postal-threat prosecution. Let’s hope that officials find Smollett’s fingerprints all over that envelope and his DNA on the dried saliva on its seal. If this sends Smollett to federal prison for several years, then God Bless America.