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 imagine we witnessed a modern-day lynching initially.
The documentary gives 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 minimize 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
Based on 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 isn’t 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 search 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 in opposition to Jussie have been dropped the primary time. Jussie’s attorneys didn’t present the DNA proof to the jury. Jussie was by no means advised about it and discovered about it two years after trial.”
“The Osundairo brothers proceed to disclaim that they made a cope with Chicago police however that’s been utterly undermined and contradicted by former Chicago Police Chief Spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, who publicly mentioned the Osundairos brokered a cope with CPD,” the assertion reads. “Guglielmi mentioned CPD used Jussie’s Good Morning America interview to trick the brothers into considering Jussie ID’d them. On GMA, Jussie merely mentioned the boys within the picture have been Jussie’s attackers, however by no means mentioned he knew who these males have been or that they have been the brothers.”
The web site additionally experiences that Smollett didn’t obtain any cash for his involvement within the documentary though everybody else was paid and had no enter relating to what the ultimate minimize of the Netflix doc would appear to be.
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 lodge 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 imagine 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 advised CPD the person he noticed was white, but was taken to a lineup of all Black males,” in keeping with the assertion despatched to Bossip. “Moore additionally testified that Sean Wieber, of Dan Webb’s particular prosecutor staff, repeatedly pressured him to vary his testimony and say the suspect was Black. Moore refused, spoke concerning the stress by Sean Wieber at trial, and identified Sean Wieber in open courtroom.”
Fascinating, if true.
Nicely, it might appear the documentary is doing its job, former ESPN persona, 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 the whole lot the police say as an absolute fact. The police lie. Usually. And it’s even crazier that we now have a justice system during which the police are allowed to misinform individuals to supposedly get on the fact.”
We will see if this documentary and this new “key proof” shift all the public’s sentiment in the direction of the case.
