WARNING: This post contains video that may upset or offend many. The endless drip of information from Jussie Smollett’s unsealed criminal case file took a very harsh turn today with new video drop…
. The Chicago Police had promised on May 30 that “pertinent video files” would be made public sooner or later.
After the actor initially attracted wide spread sympathy for being subjected to a racial and homophobic attack, Cook County prosecutors eventually charged Smollett with 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report. The actor maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty.
In the closing days of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s regime, the city sued Smollett in civil court to recover more than $130,000 it allegedly spent in police overtime hours investigating the case. That case is still on-going as is a defamation lawsuit against some of Smollett’s legal team by brothers Ola and Abel Osundairo, who Chicago police said were paid by the actor to plan and coordinate the alleged fake assault on that cold Chicago early morning back in January.
Another video that the CPD released today shows the O’Hare arrest of Abel Osundairo as he returned from a trip to Nigeria earlier this year.He is placed in handcuffs and then brought in for questioning. The brothers would later tell police they were paid to go along with a staged attack on Jussie Smollett.
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