Chicago police release hundreds of videos, documents on Jussie Smollett investigation
by Megan Crepeau, Jeremy Gorner and William Lee, Chicago Tribune
Jun 25, 2019
3 minutes
CHICAGO - On the night Jussie Smollett reported being the victim of a vicious hate crime, he stepped forward to greet police officers wearing a powerful symbol of the attack he said he suffered: a thin white rope looped around his neck, braided into a tangled noose and reaching below his chest.
"The reason I'm calling (police) is because of this s---," one of Smollett's managers told the officers, reaching toward Smollett to grab the noose with disdain.
"Do you want to take it off or anything?" an officer asked Smollett, then an actor on
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