The police chief in Chicago is furious while the police superintendent Eddie Johnson

who announced these charges against Smollett in the first place.

Have you just turning on the radio?

The Chicago DA, the state attorney, Kim Fox, who had recused herself from this case, has

just announced that charges against just, just he Smollett have been dropped and the police

were not consulted.

They didn't know.

He has paid them $10,000.

She's saying, well, he was only going to get community service.

If he was found guilty, he's already done some great community service.

And so we are dropping the charges and his record will be expunged.

And this just happened moments ago this morning.

This was revealed about 30, 40, 45 minutes ago.

And what we're told is that the police chief Eddie Johnson is a police superintendent is

furious.

He was not given a heads up that that this was going to happen.

It appears folks, if best that I have been able to determine and I have been immersed

in this ever since it happened, it appears that this has nothing to do with being a defect

in the evidence.

It has nothing to do with the fact that what he was accused of being or doing didn't

happen or that they can't prove it.

It rather appears to be, as my friend Andy McCarthy referred to at moments ago on Fox,

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