The Jussie Smollett Case

Jussie Smollett says he was attacked in Chicago. Then he wasn’t. Then he was? Here’s the whole story as it unfolded.

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00:00I think that what people need to hear is just the truth.

00:30I think that what people need to hear is just the truth.

01:00I'm the gay Tupac.

01:30How can you doubt that?

01:31Like, how do you not believe that?

01:33It's the truth.

01:34And then it became a thing of like,

01:36oh, it's not necessarily that you don't believe that this is the truth.

01:41You don't even want to see the truth.

02:00You know, there's still a lot of moving parts to this,

02:08so I am here for my clients,

02:12and I had a job to do specifically for them.

02:30This announcement today recognizes that Empire actor Jussie Smollett

02:48took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career.

02:54I'm left hanging my head and asking why.

03:25And he used the laws of the hate crime legislation

03:27that all of us collectively over years have put on the books

03:30to stand up to be the values that embody what we believe in.

03:34This is a whitewash of justice.