[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

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I don't really believe his story"

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If this was the response on the Daily Mail site, then it can be taken as near enough concrete proof that we should, indeed, believe his story.

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

If this was the response on the Daily Mail site, then it can be taken as near enough concrete proof that we should, indeed, believe his story.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

If this was the response on the Daily Mail site, then it can be taken as near enough concrete proof that we should, indeed, believe his story.

bit harsh on Annie who is obviously an avid reader

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

bit harsh on Annie who is obviously an avid reader

Considering the last thread an numerous others you have made on S&D are using Daily Mail articles LT, methinks it is YOU who is the avid reader, not I

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

Considering the last thread an numerous others you have made on S&D are using Daily Mail articles LT, methinks it is YOU who is the avid reader, not I

I only look at the bikini pics of celebs

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

I only look at the bikini pics of celebs

Well obviously not as your last thread was about Liam Neeson and not a bikini in sight

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

Well obviously not as your last thread was about Liam Neeson and not a bikini in sight

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

[AnnieK]

Touche

[Oliver_W]

So it seems two men have been arrested.

CHICAGO (WTHR/AP) — New developments in the investigation of an alleged attack on actor Jussie Smollett. TMZ reports police have arrested two men from Nigeria who had worked as extras on the "Empire" show that Smollett stars in.

According to TMZ, the brothers' home was raided on Thursday with police removing potential evidence.

The brothers were originally picked up by police on Wednesday night at an airport in Chicago, TMZ reports.

Chicago police said Thursday night that local media reports that the attack against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was a hoax are unconfirmed.

Producers of the television drama also disputed media reports that Smollett's character, Jamal Lyon, was being written off the show, calling the idea "patently ridiculous."

"(Smollett) remains a core player on this very successful series and we continue to stand behind him," 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a statement late Thursday.

Smollett has said he was attacked while out getting food at a Subway restaurant.

The singer and actor said the attackers yelled "this is MAGA country," referencing President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan.

Smollett said he didn't want to call police at first, but that his friend and creative director, Frank Gatson, called on his behalf. Smollett said he didn't remove a rope from around his neck before police arrived "because I wanted them to see."

He also said he didn't initially want to give police his cellphone because the device contained private content and phone numbers.

Smollett later gave detectives heavily redacted phone records that police have said are insufficient for a criminal investigation.

Well I'm eating my words, this really sounds like a non-orchestrated racist attack to me.

[Crimson Dynamo]

oop

[Beso]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

That's how he should have dressed up when he went out ooking for a black guy to start on him.

[Dash Darington]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

So it seems two men have been arrested.



Well I'm eating my words, this really sounds like a non-orchestrated racist attack to me.

They were released without charge.

The alleged victim would have had a hard time explaining how he mistook two Nigerian bodybuilders for white "hillbillies" calling him a ****** and declaring Chicago to be "MAGA country."

[SherzyK]

I like how the only thing pinpointed was the MAGA chants and the race of the two attackers. You were skeptic the attack happened and there’s your proof.

[Oliver_W]

Jussie has reportedly since hired a defence lawyer, who represents "individuals and corporations in high profile federal criminal and regulatory cases"

I wonder what possible reason the "victim of a hate crime" would need such a lawyer for...

[Dash Darington]

Police say the 2 men are the same ones who were captured on surveillance video around the time of the incident.

Jussie told Robin Roberts this week, he's positive the 2 men on the surveillance video are the same 2 men who attacked him.

https://www.tmz.com/2019/02/15/jussi...gerian-attack/

Assuming this isn't mis-reporting, this sounds very much like the "attackers" were Smollett's Nigerian co-workers, with whom he had a friendly relationship (discussed health and fitness with them on-set, according to one report). It's getting very interesting now.

[Alf]

Just remember that I was branded "a bigot" for using critical thinking on this.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

Just remember that I was branded "a bigot" for using critical thinking on this.

Yes Shocking

[Crimson Dynamo]

so the 2 Nigerians were released by police now

Smollett confirmed that they 2 on the vid were the 2 that attacked him

Police confirm that the 2 on the vid are the 2 Nigerians

SMollet said initially they were both white MAGA copped rednecks?

have I got that right?

[Matthew.]

Is “critical thinking” the new way of saying “ignoring the facts to suit your own viewpoint”

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Matthew.

Is “critical thinking” the new way of saying “ignoring the facts to suit your own viewpoint”

what facts are you referring too specifically?

[Matthew.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

what facts are you referring too specifically?

The fact that the attack happened

[Alf]

Jussie Smollett is a lying, race-baiting arse. Nothing happened, he made it up.

[Oliver_W]

ANYWAY.

We still don't what really happened, if anything. I think the most likely event was some random hobo shoved him over in passing, and everything else was him embellishing.

[SherzyK]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Jussie has reportedly since hired a defence lawyer, who represents "individuals and corporations in high profile federal criminal and regulatory cases"

I wonder what possible reason the "victim of a hate crime" would need such a lawyer for...

Where is this information??