Sup you beautiful bastards.

Don't be having a fantastic Thursday.

Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show,

and let's just jump into it.

And the first thing we're going to talk about today

is, wow, wow, wow, this Jesse Smollett situation.

And to start things off, I'm going to kind of do a

TLDR to the updates we're going to talk about today if you want a more

detailed version. I highly recommend you watch a previous videos on this. But that

said, as you might remember at the end of January, Jesse Smollett, an actor on the TV show,

Empire claimed he was assaulted

in a hate crime by two men in Chicago.

But as we discussed, there were initial weird things

with the reporting.

There were also later reports that alleged that Smollett

may have staged the attack

himself since some of the evidence really wasn't adding up his story was also

changing also regarding who did this the police took two suspects into

questioning but then released them without charges and that led to Wednesday

where Chicago police

announced that Smalet was actually a suspect in a criminal investigation

as to whether or not he filed a false police report and staged that attack.

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