#151 The Tale of Jussie Smollett: The Award For the Best Worst Fake Hate Crime Ever Goes To... [Part 1]
The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast
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🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
The January 2019 Self-Inflicted Hate Crime Hoax Former Empire Actor Jussie Smolett Planned And Carried Out With The Help Of His Personal Trainers [Part 1]
**KD IS NO LONGER WITH ORBITAL JIGSAW OR BLUBRRY**
This is the first part of a 3 part series. In the early morning hours of January 29, 2019, Empire actor Jussie Smollett was attacked by 2 masked men outside his Chicago apartment as he walked home from getting some food. The men shouted racial and homophobic slurs at Smollett, told him this was MAGA country (a reference to support for President Trump) and they punched him. As they fought, the men would pour bleach on Smollett and loop a rope fashioned into a noose around his neck before running off into the night. Love and support poured in from around the country for Jussie Smollett, some even calling this hate crime a modern day lynching. The ensuing investigation would eventually reveal there was much more to the story than first thought.
UPDATE:
Killafornia Dreaming provided an update on the Jussie Smollett case in the 2021 Year In Review special. Follow the link to listen to that and several other cases that made headlines or had updates in 2021 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1656709/episodes/9737066.
SOURCES:
https://apnews.com/JussieSmollett
https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-alleged-jussie-smollett-attack/story?id=61124090
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9vVMNi4N0
https://pagesix.com/2020/06/10/jussie-smollett-demands-transparency-from-cops-handling-his-case
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/27/opinions/jussie-smollett-charges-we-are-the-problem-bailey/index.html
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/7/6/21314661/jussie-smollett-lawyers-wont-get-access-records-chicago-police-superintendent-eddie-johnson-firing
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