Hello again Dreamers and welcome back to our series on the Jesse Smalette Hate Crime

Hokes episodes.

This is the third and final installment.

So if you haven't listened to Parts 1 and 2 yet, I suggest you pause this here, go back, listen to

episodes 151 and 152, then come back to this.

In Part 2, we finished up our analysis of Smalet's interview on Good Morning

America with Robin Roberts. We went through the investigation that ultimately led to the

identification of the attackers, which subsequently

confirmed what many had already been thinking, that the attack was staged.

The brothers having admitted to being paid to participate in the staging of the thing

We talked about Smollett being indicted and him voluntarily surrendering himself into custody on February 21st, 2019, a little more than three weeks after the attack.

Then, a little more than a month after that, all the charges were dropped.

Smollett forfeited his $10,000 bail and he was ordered to serve

16 hours of community service, which sounded really shady to all of us but Smollett was still able to proclaim his innocence publicly.

Now we are going to get into what the prosecution had said in their brief written statement to the press

about the charges being dropped. We are going to go over the press conference

that Superintendent Eddie Johnson and Mayor Rahm Emanuel held and their

reactions to the dismissal of the charges.

We'll also have a discussion how we were able to tell,

despite Smollett being an actor,

that he was lying from the very beginning.

Before we get started into this episode, though I do want to take the time to thank a few more patrons.

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