This Jussie Smollett Situation is REALLY Bizarre...

[jjs07]

Um....

 

[tr1ll]

This **** just gonna disappear..

 

[thenewjs23]

If posted my bad but allegedly the the brothers that are being questioned.
The one on the right was an extra on Empire.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/arrested-nigerian-brothers-jussie-smollett-204938051.html

 

[hand2handking]

damn dudes were going ham in here too

 

[doublemesh96]

damn dudes were going hard in here too

 

[hand2handking]

fixed

 

[hand2handking]

JUSSIE SMOLLETT
Cops Release 'Suspects' Due To New Evidence Gathered During Questioning


https://www.tmz.com/2019/02/15/juss...ttery-nigerian-brothers-empire-extras-actors/

7:30 PM PT -- Cops are releasing the Osundairo brothers and they won't be charged.

Chicago PD says, "Due to new evidence as a result of today's interrogations, the individuals questioned by police in the 'Empire' case have now been released without charging."

Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi added that detectives have "additional investigative work to complete."

Police have now arrested 2 men in the Jussie Smollett investigation -- 2 men with ties to "Empire" -- and TMZ has learned they were booked for battery.

The men are brothers from Nigeria named Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, and Chicago cops are now calling them "potential suspects" ... as opposed to persons of interest. We know it was their home cops raided Wednesday and seized a long list of potential evidence ... including several bottles of bleach.

As we reported ... cops picked up Ola and Abel, their nicknames, on Wednesday night at O'Hare Airport.

A Chicago law enforcement source tells us the next step may be a lineup in which Jussie will be asked to identify the culprits. This raises a potential problem because, as we first reported, Jussie initially said his attackers were white and yelled "MAGA country."

The Osundairos, from Nigeria, just don't fit that profile.

As you know, Jussie has stated the men in the dark, grainy image released last month are definitely his attackers. Police are not confirming the Osundairo brothers are the men in that photo.

Ola played a prison inmate on season 2 of "Empire." It's unclear exactly how well they know Jussie, but we know Jussie follows their joint Instagram account. Abel also says he's worked on "Empire."

Both brothers describe themselves online as actors and models.

 

[Mark Antony]

 

[elpablo21]

Um....

The Netflix/Hulu battle for this doc is gonna be

 

[hand2handking]

 

[doublemesh96]

I’m surprised this dude didn’t hire someone who plays an attorney on the show

 

[RustyShackleford]

JUSSIE SMOLLETT
Cops Release 'Suspects' Due To New Evidence Gathered During Questioning


https://www.tmz.com/2019/02/15/juss...ttery-nigerian-brothers-empire-extras-actors/

 

[kicks2024]

I’m surprised this dude didn’t hire someone who plays an attorney on the show

 

[hand2handking]

I’m surprised this dude didn’t hire someone who plays an attorney on the show

 

[servechilled81]

you mean to tell me those 2 dudes ran up on frail Jussie Smollett and all he had was a cat scratch on his face?

yeah aight....

 

[headdetective]

“The Empire case”

And people still wanna believe this is true

**** more fake than the 6ix9ine case.

 

[hand2handking]

Dave Chappelle Says He Wants to Break a Dollhouse Over Jussie Smollett’s Head for “Lying”
The comedian reacted to breaking news suggesting the attack against the actor and singer was a hoax.

http://www.newnownext.com/dave-chappelle-jussie-smollett-attack-joke/02/2019/

Dave Chappelle performed Thursday night (February 14) to two sold-out audiences in Charlotte, North Carolina, informing the crowd from the beginning, “We have a lot to talk about.”

I attended the first of the two performances and watched the comedian, fresh off a Grammy win for Best Comedy Album, make good on his opening comment, covering a span of topics that included the Kevin Hart Oscars controversy, his own critics in the transgender community, and the Jussie Smollett case.

Stephen Green/ABC via Getty Images) JUSSIE SMOLLETT, ROBIN ROBERTS

He informed the crowd of breaking news, which was inaccessible to those of us in attendance, as he had employed the use of Yondr to lock up people’s phones: Smollett had, in Chappelle’s words, faked the attack against him to stay on Empire.

Chappelle joked that it made him so mad he wanted to break a dollhouse over the star’s head, referencing one of the jokes that brought criticism to Hart.

At showtime it had just been reported that sources said there was reason to believe the attack was faked, but Chicago police tweeted out in response that there was “no evidence to say that this is a hoax.” Fox also denied the rumor that he was being written off the show. It seems Chappelle had not received that information.

He questioned a number of elements of Smollett’s story, saying he was skeptical from the beginning, despite wanting to believe him. Even Scooby-Doo, he joked, would have questioned the veracity of the actor and singer’s account.

Chappelle suggested Smollett wouldn’t be going to Subway late at night, asking, “He doesn’t have people who can do that for him?” He also said it seemed odd to him that someone would be wearing both a ski mask and a “Make America Great Again” hat, as some reporting claimed the two alleged attackers were wearing. Smollett has said that he never claimed the men were wearing MAGA hats.

Vivien Killilea/WireImage

Chappelle also wondered who would have rope with them in Chicago, and why he waited so long to report the incident to police, as well as why he would keep the noose around his neck. Smollett has said he didn’t want to call police at first, and that he left the rope around his neck because he wanted them to see it when they arrived.

Smollett said one of the men asked him, “Aren’t you that ****** Empire ******?”

Chappelle doubted that too, saying it sounded more like something he would say, and asked how anyone could get through watching that show if they hated gay people, due to its high level of LGBTQ representation.

He didn’t buy that Smollett’s alleged attackers would have shouted, “This is MAGA country!” either, as Smollett claims, saying that’s not how white, Trump supporting racists talk.

“They say, ’This is America!'” he quipped.

He repeatedly expressed his anger that, in his belief, Smollett had lied about the attack, saying it would hurt the credibility of real victims of anti-gay and racist violence.

“Hopefully the gays will take the brunt of this,” he joked.

He noted that Kevin Hart, who won’t be hosting the Oscars after all due to unearthed homophobic tweets and jokes, was probably watching the news laughing to himself. Hart had reached out to offer support to Smollett and was chastised by many who said it was an example of why he should have been more responsible with his platform.



Chappelle defended Hart, saying he was “obviously joking” when he said he would break his daughter’s dollhouse over his son’s head if he showed signs of being gay. He said that “believe it or not,” he has plenty of gay friends who have told him how difficult it was to be open about their identities, but Chappelle said “not one of them—not a single one—has ever told me that their father smashed a ****ing dollhouse over their head.”

Besides, he said, he would have to get him a dollhouse in order to break it over his head, he added. This despite Hart’s joke saying it would be his daughter’s dollhouse that he’d be using.

Chappelle also addressed his critics in the LGBTQ community, which he called “the alphabet people,” noting that transgender people in particular were upset with him. He said he didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings and felt bad when he did, but that he thinks people are only really mad at him “on the internet.”

He said he’s been told to look out, because transgender people are out to get him, but that whenever he seems a trans person, “They’re just like, ’Heyyyy!!!'”

Chappelle told a story about his son befriending a young trans girl, whom the community, including the comedian himself, felt moved to protect. But one day his son said he was frustrated because whenever he and his friend disagreed, everyone sided with the trans child because there was an overall desire to protect her.

“And I’m like, ’Yo, son… they get on my nerves, too!'”

Kevin Winter/Getty Images

“Just because you’re gay doesn’t make you right about every goddamn thing. You right about a lot of ****, but I mean… just give these people their rights so I can say funny **** again,” he said, to laughs and applause.

The comedian also recalled being asked by Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen if he could ever host the Oscars, to which he replied: “Well, if Kevin can’t, ****, I’m sure I can’t. I’ve said way worse than that.”

He closed out the set with this message: “If I ever get in trouble for the things I say, I’ll say it right now: I’m going to apologize. Just know, I’m not sorry.”

Today, two suspects, Nigerian brothers, were arrested in connection with the attack on Smollett. They are being treated as “potential suspects,” and one of the men worked onEmpire, police report.

 

[jjs07]

 

[harlemtothebronx]

 

[tr1ll]

They wildest thing bout this case, IMO, is how bad people want this man to be lying. OJ sat up there and lied, we bought it. R.Kelly sat up there and lied(terribly) and we bought that ****. Jussie Smollett? "I hope they burn this lyin *** mofo!!" What the ****???? People are weird, man.

At this point, either way this is embarrassing.

 

[tay1]

Speak for yourself .Nobody bought R Kelly. There was a whole tape

 

[hand2handking]

like if dude is lying oh well thats on him

but dudes act like they gonna build a cross and crucify him in the street after

 

[Maximus Meridius]

They wildest thing bout this case, IMO, is how bad people want this man to be lying. OJ sat up there and lied, we bought it. R.Kelly sat up there and lied(terribly) and we bought that ****. Jussie Smollett? "I hope they burn this lyin *** mofo!!" What the ****???? People are weird, man.

At this point, either way this is embarrassing.

Nah. Ryan Lochte lied and people bought it. George Zimmerman lied and people bought it.

 

[tr1ll]

Speak for yourself .Nobody bought R Kelly. There was a whole tape

You been in that thread....dudes still trying to deny it.

Nah. Ryan Lochte lied and people bought it. George Zimmerman lied and people bought it.

..kinda weak too.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

..kinda weak too.

They didn't lie and get away with what they did?