We thought we had put the saga of the well-known French actor, Juicy Smolliét, aka Jussie Smollett, and the alleged hate crime hoax, however a brand new Netflix documentary has reignited the dialog, even casting doubt due to new proof offered in it.
Smollett is concerned within the new documentary titled The Fact About Jussie Smollett? that revisits the alleged 2019 racial and homophobic assault that noticed him assaulted with a rope put round his neck, leaving many to consider we witnessed a modern-day lynching initially.
The documentary presents new insights into the case, prompting questions concerning the Chicago Police Division’s motives. Nonetheless, Bossip solely experiences that Smollett and his representatives declare the ultimate reduce of the documentary omitted greater than 10 essential factors in a press release despatched to the web site.
The Netflix Documentary Allegedly Leaves Out Key Insights That Would Show Jussie Smollett’s Innocence
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In response to reps for Smollett, the documentary uncared for to incorporate “witness tampering, a failure to run DNA discovered on the proof, and the CPD’s historical past of scandal.”
Per Bossip:
“The FBI examined the rope. The Osundairo brothers’ DNA shouldn’t be on it. Jussie’s DNA is on the rope, in addition to an unknown man’s DNA. Nobody ever examined the DNA of the unknown man to seek out out who he’s,” a press release from Smollett’s reps reads. “The FBI DNA outcomes got here in March 2019, earlier than the fees towards Jussie had been dropped the primary time. Jussie’s attorneys didn’t present the DNA proof to the jury. Jussie was by no means instructed about it and came upon about it two years after trial.”
“The Osundairo brothers proceed to disclaim that they made a take care of Chicago police however that’s been fully undermined and contradicted by former Chicago Police Chief Spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, who publicly mentioned the Osundairos brokered a take care of CPD,” the assertion reads. “Guglielmi mentioned CPD used Jussie’s Good Morning America interview to trick the brothers into pondering Jussie ID’d them. On GMA, Jussie merely mentioned the boys within the picture had been Jussie’s attackers, however by no means mentioned he knew who these males had been or that they had been the brothers.”
The web site additionally experiences that Smollett didn’t obtain any cash for his involvement within the documentary despite the fact that everybody else was paid and had no enter relating to what the ultimate reduce of the Netflix doc would appear like.
Reps For Jussie Smollett Declare CPD Pressured A Witness To Change His Story
Smollett’s reps additionally declare that the CPD pressured one of many key eyewitnesses, Anthony Moore, a safety guard at close by resort who initially claimed he noticed a white male close to the scene of the crime, that may corroborate Smollett’s story and never the police who firmly consider it was the Osundario brothers who carried out the “hoax assault.”
On the finish of the documentary, when Moore is proven new surveillance footage that appears like a white particular person on the scene, he claims that he sees two Black males.
“Anthony Moore was repeatedly pressured to vary his story. He instructed CPD the person he noticed was white, but was taken to a lineup of all Black males,” in line with the assertion despatched to Bossip. “Moore additionally testified that Sean Wieber, of Dan Webb’s particular prosecutor workforce, repeatedly pressured him to vary his testimony and say the suspect was Black. Moore refused, spoke concerning the strain by Sean Wieber at trial, and identified Sean Wieber in open courtroom.”
Attention-grabbing, if true.
Nicely, it might appear the documentary is doing its job, former ESPN character, Jemele Hill, spoke about it on Threads, writing in her put up:
“Simply completed the Jussie Smollett documentary. It’s one more reminder to journalists to cease treating every thing the police say as an absolute fact. The police lie. Typically. And it’s even crazier that we now have a justice system through which the police are allowed to deceive individuals to supposedly get on the fact.”
We will see if this documentary and this new “key proof” shift the entire public’s sentiment in direction of the case.
