“Justice here will always be shady,” a sentiment voiced by many as the actor’s bizarre saga continues to reverberate.
By Mark Guarino March 29 CHICAGO — At Manny’s, a Jewish deli in the South Loop, the usual lunchtime chatter was overtaken this week by the whiplash news about actor Jussie Smollett and the charges he no longer faces for what police say was a staged hate crime.
Across the table at Manny’s, his lunchtime companion put the case in personal terms: “If it had been one of us,” Clarence Davis said, “we’d already be in jail.” [Jussie Smollett case prompts criticism from prosecutors and Trump amid questions about dropped charges]“People feel there is something unscrupulous going on,” Al Pickett said in between servicing clients at his barber shop in Bronzeville, and they’re stung by the international attention the case has thrust upon Chicago. “Saying we’re a city capable of a hate crime like that, we didn’t need that,” Pickett said.
“What difference am I going to make if I chase after somebody with a gun and know the state’s attorney is going to let them go?” said a longtime officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak for the department.
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