Chris Rock pokes fun at Jussie Smollett at NAACP Image Awards: 'You ain't gettin' no respect from me'
Presenter Chris Rock addressed the elephant in the room at Saturday’s NAACP Image Awards, where he cracked wise about Jussie Smollett just four days after prosecutors dropped all charges against the Empire star for the alleged staging of a hate crime attack against himself in January.
“What the hell was he thinking?” Rock continued. “You’re Jessie from now on… You don’t even get the ‘U’ no more. That ‘U’ was respect. You ain’t gettin’ no respect from me.” After Smollett was relieved of all charges earlier this week, Chicago PD Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who previously criticized Smollett after evidence suggested that he staged the attack, maintained that justice had not been served. Meanwhile, Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said that “[Smollett] did this all in the name of self-promotion,” and referred to the dropped charges as a “whitewash of justice.
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