How Police Came to Believe Jussie Smollett's Claim of a Racial and Homophobic Attack Wasn't True
AfterEmpirestarJussie Smollettreported he’d been beaten in a hate crime at 2 a.m on a Chicago street last month as the rest of the city was bunkered against one of the coldest nights of the year, police were skeptical but took him at his word. “To be perfectly honest, from the very beginning we had questions,” Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said at a news conference Thursday. “When we discovered the actual motive,” said Johnson, “quite frankly it pissed everybody off....