“A Cook County grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Jussie Smollett with making four separate false reports to Chicago Police Department officers related to his false claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, knowing that he was not the victim of a crime,” the office said in a statement Tuesday.
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Jussie Smollett Indicted By Special Prosecutor In Chicago | NBC Nightly News
You do the crime ? You must do the TIME
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂
What an odious fake self serving disingenuous individual…..I hope he never works again.
Uh oh, don’t pull a Jussie! https://youtu.be/B0v7Tp0gmr0
Cooked
That darn frenchman!
Juicy…. Smoooy’ay! – “He was a very Famous FRENCH Actor!!!”
POS
I wear maga hat in Chicago downtown get stares cuz I’m 63 n 230 fit black man
If they can indicted Amber Heart next. So far she’s still living good in her fancy world
Ahhh the world famous french actor juicy smolyay finally gets what he deserves
Look the worst mayor in history….
Maxine waters and Michelle Obama are also involved in this hoax. Send this unscrupulous person to jail.
I can’t even read his name without hearing “joo-see smoh-yay” in my head. Thanks Dave.
This POS should b in Jail
All I can say is when Jussie Smollett goes to prison, I’m sure he’ll have fun taking care of all those inmates!
He deserves punishment if he made false claims. False claims hurt the real claims.
Juicy smolley… the french actor. Fake news… liberals and media spread the fakenews…. and they get oddly quiet.
he don’t need to be nailed to the cross,but he does need to be humbled with some jail time I think,i really don’t know how right an left ever guna come together again in this entitlement society we now live in,its a sad state were living in now,cuz no one ever got to choose their skin color,i wish the day come about good or evil first,an if it’s possible bring the evil to light,an the world could be a much better place,how ironic it would be if the human race all bled into one an all people find harmony,only to discover a yr later the sun burned out an life was no more
See! Amerikkka has a serious mental illness.
He is ruined
Black folk want to see him in jail too!!
LMFAO…Why are you people making this a president Trump issue…Your attention span has a lot to be desired. My humble opinion is Smollett does not have what it takes to draw headlines so he pulled this crap. He fails as a actor and criminal. Give him a year in a state penitentiary. He can experience all the hate crimes he wants there.
It’s about time they get his lying a#$
It is not in the interest of justice because police spent so many resources, it is in the interest of justice because first he tried to incite a race war and THEN, with help of friends in high political offices, they tried to hide it under the rug.
Black Supremest
it looked like two aliens walking away from that scene
juicy
NBC News, huh? Now who’s lying? Personally, I stopped watching you when you became blatant propagandist.
Sissy Smellit needs to meet the guys in hoods.
Inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame
Just remember black racism doesn’t exist lol
Just imagine if he were white and did this……I wonder what that black lady prosecutor would have done???
….hmmmmmmmmmmm
If you going to win this case, do not go to Gayle King. Will Oprah Or you will be home. And I wrote. Obox
Poor Jussie🙃😢
directly to JAIL
do not pass GO
You left out that they had Make America Great Again hats. How convenient……..
He deserves to serve time..
Any indictment passed down for anyone on this list?
https://www.innocenceproject.org/african-american-wrongful-convictions-throughout-history/
How about any public outrage?
🤔
I hope he gets the book thrown at him.
Jesse small at AKA, Little man boy
Not juicy smuyaa (in my Dave Chappell voice)😂😂😂
Wow another black man crying racism. Fuq off
faking a hate crime should be jail time…
GOOD.. GREAT SO SEE THIS TROUBLE MAKING C**T .. LIBERAL LEFT VERMIN..
He is good at getting his name out there…. I never heard of him or the show he was on…..
I have mixed feelings about this on one hand he should pay the price with whatever consequences that is but on the other hand he needs psychological therapy and some soul-searching .Also, the embarrassment alone should be enough ……
The Lib media sowed the seeds of ‘White Guilt’…and it bore this fruit.
Heedeedoonuffin.
Jussie Smollett’s anti-Conservative hoax is only one of tens of hoaxes perpetrated by Democrats between 2017 and 2020, is highly divisive, destabilising and dangerous for society and should be severely punished. If there was a rash of hoaxes portraying any group, other than whites, as inherently racist, it would be a national scandal. However, non-white celebrities, politicians and journalists routinely insult white people without any repercussions.
He lies like a typical democrat
He is not special. The law is for everyone.
9 murders in Chicago just last weekend. I live in Charlotte where there were 12 charges filed in the UNC Charlotte shootings, but there have been 20 charges filed against Jussie Smollett where no one died and no property was damaged. You tell me.
Throwing bleach part I don’t quite understood 😂😂he’s nuts .. he needs to go to mental hospital
Good
Ahh yes…i now this man very well… the very well known French Actor… Jussy Smoolyay!!
White people do this all the time but there is no outrage and nobody goes to prison
Justice for Juicey Smoüyey
every trump supporter should sue this moron for slander with a class action suit
*Future Juicy:* but they hurt my booty
*Future Police Guards:* here we go again
*Future Juicy cell mate:* smiles
*Song playing:* can’t touch this…
Putting him in Jail is exactly what he wants because he wants to be around other men and be a prison wife. We should send him to Iran where the peaceful Muslim Community will welcome him with open arms since Islam is a religion of peace.
Call the Waahmbulance: Jussie Smollett Indicted AGAIN!
https://imgflip.com/i/3p8fnp
So good at being a victim that he’s become a victim of himself. LOL.
This is the same network that reported this story as totally true. They thought they had their “gotcha ” moment against conservatives.
Mainstream media is a f***ing joke.
Only the people who watched Empire new who this dirtbag was . Now the world knows.
If a person has money or famous friends he doesnt have to obey the law. That is the message we got from his previous charges dropped
yesss….. finally we get Juicy justice for jussie smolyay
Can’t wait to see juicy sue the city for slander…👻👻
He will get 2 weeks max. More surprised is the reporting of NBC about Smollet.
no..no..no…I was just saying if this did happen to me, this is how it would of went down…I didn’t say it really happened….thx for the advice OJ…..hahahahahaaaahhhahahahahahahaaaaa
#JusticeForJuicy! 😂✊🏾
What an utter bellend of a man , the funniest part is when the cops show up to lil juicys apartment, over an hour after the alleged “” Attack “” , and he’s still wearing the washing line noose …WTF ????..😂😂😂😂😂
Why would NBC report on something that didn’t go CNN’s way?
Justice for juicy!
I bet he never thought it would blow up like this when Jussie concocted this plan. Glad they are not letting it be brushed under the rug.
What about Casey Anthony?! She lied to the authorities and murdered a baby, Now you can watch videos of her bar hopping.
you getting prison time
OM HROOM JOOM SIDDHA GURUVE NAMAHA
NOTHING REAL CAN BE THREATENED. NOTHING UNREAL EXISTS. HEREIN LIES THE PEACE OF GOD.
What Bill did the Senate pass regarding lynching?
Who were the authors of the Bill?
What event took place just prior to the passing of the Bill?
Did the event involve a ‘noose’?
Did the event sway Senators in their decision to prevent attacks from the news media?
regarding the Smollett case?
Did the news media contact many Senators prior to vote seeking out pro/nay in attempt to coerce using Smollett case as foundation for possible future smears?
What is the mathematical probability of these two events occurring within this same time period?
What is Smollett’s relationship with senators Booker/Harris?
“Hate crime” laws shouldn’t even exist—there are already laws that cover those crimes (harassment, assault, vandalism, etc.). Making laws for “hate crimes” elevates certain groups to special/priveleged status, discourages free speech from applying to discussion of those groups, and encourages members of those groups to make false claims of crimes.
In England, minor incidents & baseless claims that are not even crimes are now recorded & counted toward “hate crime” statistics.
Lock these racist pieces of trash up.
No reasonable person agrees with this guy. Why were the original charges dropped? I just don’t get that
Sad really how the main stream media made a case of this knowing the doubt that was from the very beginning. They should be held just as accountable!!
Lol karma
Great news!!
Jesse on drugs for real
Remember what Smollett said when they dropped the original 16 charges against him last year? “I would not bring my family, our lives or THE MOVEMENT through a fire like this.” The movement? This dude is a total woke POS. He’s the poster boy for the left’s unrestrained lunacy, hypocrisy and evil.
Haha NBC must have had to hold its nose when they did this story. Losers
People are going to Prison for 5 year’s for traffic violations! The whole system is broken and corrupt and we don’t need Government at all.
He thought he in the Body Guard movie,what a fool
Kamala Harris name all over this the cover up part.
Kind of funny since empire got cancelled
Juicy
Funny how many use the ‘ I’m a powerless minority’ gag as a weapon.
Lets hope he goes to jail for ten years.
Can sing….play instruments…..
Act… not too old..
Coulda became an amazing being…..
Beyond sad his ….chosen path…
While Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been having a tough week so far, there appears to be a silver lining: cable news channel CNN has offered Smollett a job as an investigative reporter and on-air anchor after witnessing his skills at fabricating a story entirely out of thin air.
Equal rights baby! 😎
I wonder if he reads comments.
Hi Jussie!
Any penalty less than what someone would have received for the crimes he alleged is too little.
Where did this end up?