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Police Video Shows Jussie Smollett Holding Noose Around Neck After Staged Attack: WATCH

Andy Towle June 25, 2019 Leave a Comment

Jussie Smollett noose

The Chicago Police Department has released bodycam footage which shows officers responding to former Empire actor Jussie Smollett. Smollett, still wearing a noose around his neck following the staged hate crime, tells police “there's bleach on me,” asks officers if he is being filmed and asks them to turn the cameras off.

Nearly 70 hours of footage were released, CBS Chicago reports.

Smollett was indicted on 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct on March 6 for falsifying reports that he was the victim of a hate crime. Those charges were abruptly dropped on March 26 and the case sealed with no new evidence that materially changed the facts presented in the case.

Cook county judge Michael Toomin appointed a special prosecutor on June 21 to investigate why charges were dropped.

Additional footage shows the Osundairo brothers, who assisted Smollett with the attack, wearing hoodies in a cab near the location of the incident. The alleged hate crime took place on one of the coldest nights of the year.

Another video shows the brothers running from the scene.

Video of Abel Osundairo greeting by law enforcement as he gets off a plane at O'Hare.

He is placed in handcuffs and then brought in for questioning.

The brothers would later tell police they were paid to go along with a staged attack on Jussie Smollett. @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/p3xuZK6wlv

— Charlie De Mar (@CharlieDeMar) June 24, 2019

Topics: Actor, Entertainment, towleroad More Posts About: Celebrities, Chicago, Empire, hate crime, Jussie Smollett, Law Enforcement

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