Last I read, the case was still technically open

Smollet lied, pretty much in the name of “social justice”, in order to raise his paycheck.

Yep

And increase his public profile

The guys mom was a black panther and her best friend murdered 4 ppl. That's who raised Jesse smollett. It's no surprise they crap he did.

That is, I believe, a Class...4? Class 3 or Class 4 felony in Chicago, falsifying a hate crime

On top of that, his accusations afterward pretty much just alienated people.

That's... Either a hefty fine, or 3-5 years in jail

He falsified armed battery.

I should brush up on the laws

Somewhat serious

He is a racist

And to aid his friend Kamala Harris and her anti-lynching bill. 😂

I think they said he falsified some 7 crimes or so.

By they I mean Chicago PD

That sounds like the right number

It would seem he sent himself hate mail the week before...with a white powder in it.

It scares me how many people instantly believed him

I think the official report is he gave it to his Nigerian friends and had them mail it.

They had to call in the hazmat team.

Gohan, I thought you believed him to be innocent

As far as I’m concerned, this is one of few occasions where I think he is guilty until proven innocent, due to the accusations being made after a police investigation and by the police. Chicago PD is also fairly liberal, so they have no reason to be biased *against him* the way they are.

My two cents.

@The Gwench I didn't believe him to be innocent, I just said that I wasn't going to make a claim either way until the police did

He compared himself to Tupac. Wtf? How rude!!!

At the very least, that was what I intended to say

Tupac Shakur wasn’t exactly a shining light of righteousness.

Then again I suppose he had the balls to also fess up about everything he did, immediately after he did it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No but he was behaving like a parasite. Attaching himself to someone else’s fame

I don’t think anyone thinks he’s very much like Tupac.

Save perhaps his most devoted fans.

I don’t either, but Jussie was claiming to be

It’s a stupid call from him, but at the same time, I don’t particularly care. Calling yourself “gay Tupac” isn’t particularly illegal, even if it is BS.

He’s a fucking parasite

A fraud

That much is fairly clear from his crime.

Yup. A fraud in every sense.

I'm glad we can agree on something

Meh, Smollet is gay, and black, so he does have some legitimate claims going for him.

There were some very serious repercussions to his behaviour that could have caused catastrophic disaster to our modern culture.