Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in prison for fake hate crime

[aotearoagal]

'Empire' actor #JussieSmollett was sentenced to 5 months in jail for staging a racist and homophobic attack.https://t.co/6pY8JFT9tQ
- USA TODAY (@USATODAY) March 11, 2022
At his sentencing today, Jussie Smollett was sentenced to serve 150 days in jail, in conjunction with a 30-month felony probation. The judge also ordered Smollett to pay $120,000

Comments

[mangosmuggler]

How can he say he is innocent?!?? 🤔

[gimmemoarjosh]

Careful... a lot of people here think he is. Just sayin'.

[trendsnational]

At first everyone believed him and then there were more details coming out and more ppl then began to question it while others remained firm on defending him.

[doriiansz]

Considering what happens to Black and Brown women and men in jails, he's right and he should say it.

[doriiansz]

For people downvoting, I meant the part that's in the tweet about him not being suicidal in case sth happens to him while he's in jail.

[barbarbarian]

Agreed! I get the sense that people think he's implying there's like a conspiracy to "silence" him, when I think it's more that this has certainly given ammunition to white supremacists who reside and/or work at the prison he's going to, and that's why he's worried.

[chapter013]

He is right and if anything at all happens to him I will fully believe he was attacked.

This whole thing has been insane but that doesn't mean something horrible should happen to him.

[estebanvihaio]

embarrassing. I just hope this doesn't affect jurnee's career in any way. she should honestly never speak on it.

[feelingcold]

"The judge also ordered Smollett to pay $120,000 to the Chicago police"

Oh, fuck off.

Prison for lying? Seriously? This is some community service level shit.

[bestrussianrec]

Does Jussie live in Chicago? If not, why the fuck shouldn’t he have to pay 120k for pretending to get beat and waste Chicago PD’s time and resources to find the “criminals”? I would be so ashamed if I ever faked a hate crime attack and would accept full accountability… and to do it in a city one doesn’t live in, a city one’s tax money doesn’t go to? Fuck him. He needs to pay them for being stupid and wasteful

[joliebelle]

He was living in Chicago at the time to shoot Empire

[bestrussianrec]

Thank you for clarifying. If any of his income was taxed by Chicago I do think he should have to pay less in fines

[bestrussianrec]

Oh no but did we ever figure out if he was able to enjoy his Subway sandwich after the horrible scripted fake shit?