horrifying attack on Jussie Smollett

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applecorped said:
Jussie Smollett is nominated for an NAACP Award, and host Anthony Anderson hopes he wins
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Seth MacFarlane, if you're reading this; You can parody this by having Bernie Madoff receive an award in from AIPAC in Family Guy.

If you use this idea, I want royalties.
 
Dr. Keith said:
I thought one of those Nigerians looked familiar . . .
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Heh.

More seriously, I think the Obamas are probably just grateful they didn't come out publicly in favor of Smollett that first week or so.

That said, I'm now mildly curious as to what other phone calls Tina Tchen was making, while working as a fixer for Barack Obama, and what his involvement in those calls was.
 
Ernie M said:
The Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association (IPBA) Statement on Jussie Smollett Case Dismissal paints a damning picture of the State's Attorney, and the Cook[/hilte] County State's Attorney's office. But there is also a judge(s?) involved with this situation. IPBA's statement doesn't mention any judge or what role a judge played in this case. I wish there was a similar-type statement, illustrating what a judge(s?) responsibilities are, and what the judge(s) did, or did not do.
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Missing an r.
 
Eddie Dane said:
Seth MacFarlane, if you're reading this; You can parody this by having Bernie Madoff receive an award in from AIPAC in Family Guy.

If you use this idea, I want royalties.
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"Before you make this joke, be sure to change the race and the faction involved. Can't lampoon a black guy being a jackass. Better make it a joke about white folks and Jews!"

Better idea: Parody this by having OJ Simpson receive an award from the NAACP. But if you use the idea, please leave my name out of it.
 
theprestige said:
I think the State Attorney's mistake was letting herself get bullied into prioritizing Smollett's PR situation over her own office's PR situation.

In her scrabble to stop Smollett from emptying his magazine into his foot, Foxx fired an RPG right into her own face.
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Can somebody explain to clueless Eurotrash (me) what could motivate a prosecutor to do this?

As I understand it, having a high-profile perp is great for your career.

Foxx is also the prosecutor going after R Kelly.

Is this some kind of liberal incrowd thing, or people from the same ethnic group being clannish, or friends in high places thing?
 
sadhatter said:
I think the SCP foundation would be a better option.



Scp-11793

Class safe

Worlds luckiest actor



Properties- near complete immunity to consequences of any action resultant of own stupidity or greed



Mild memetic effects: suspension of disbelief in obvious lies, this affects between %1-0.5 of the population.



Ability to make people prioritize his wellbeing over their own ( foundation note: this seems to be directly proportional to said persons level of influence)



*suspected* mild specific chronomantic ability. It has been theorized by foundation scientists that scp 11793 has reversed opinions and progress toward racial and homosexual equality by aproximately 20 to 30 years. This effect seems to be stronger in areas with higher knowledge of scp 11793.



(And exactly 2 people laugh. Sorry if you didn't get the joke, but I had to do something to lighten my mood about this)
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You missed the bonus surreal incomptetence field: Passive ability.
Any "cunning plan" hatched by the subject will have a high chance of blundering and madcap comic level transparent failure. Anyone assisting the subject in any capacity can also fall subject to this effect regardless of race, rank, type, and character level. The chance of it affecting others in his group is influenced by the characters "privilege" level. Requires high ego, low empathy stats.
 
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theprestige said:
"Before you make this joke, be sure to change the race and the faction involved. Can't lampoon a black guy being a jackass. Better make it a joke about white folks and Jews!"

Better idea: Parody this by having OJ Simpson receive an award from the NAACP. But if you use the idea, please leave my name out of it.
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Now that you mention it, they could have OJ give him the award. Tell me that wouldn't get a shedload of viewers.
 
Eddie Dane said:
Can somebody explain to clueless Eurotrash (me) what could motivate a prosecutor to do this?

As I understand it, having a high-profile perp is great for your career.

Foxx is also the prosecutor going after R Kelly.

Is this some kind of liberal incrowd thing, or people from the same ethnic group being clannish, or friends in high places thing?
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Mostly the bolded. If only you clueless Eurotrash (Eddie Dane's words zooterkin, kmortists) knew.

Also George Soros paid her $400,000 or something. Haven't really looked into it but this third world style corruption doesn't surprise me.
 
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SuburbanTurkey said:
I know corruption is common in Chicago, but did they really think they could make such a public case just disappear?

I would bet that they could have weathered the PR storm had they given Smollett a slap on the wrist, but releasing him with no admittance of guilt was just too far. Letting a hoaxster walk free, still proclaiming his hoax, with a sealed record was just too outrageous.
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Hopefully it is too outrageous. Escaping punishment is one thing, being allowed to perpetuate your hoax is another.
 
I have never seen Chicago so united in criticizing an idiotic political decision.

Kimm Foxx is and always was wildly unqualified for the role of State's Attorney.
 
I'm curious as to why they chose that specific amount -- $130,000.

We all know that amount has some significance in another salacious legal case.
 
Kim Foxx has this to say...

Kim Foxx via Chicago Tribune said:
So, why isn’t Smollett in prison or at least on trial? There are two different answers to this, both equally important.

First, the law. There were specific aspects of the evidence and testimony presented to the office that would have made securing a conviction against Smollett uncertain. In determining whether or not to pursue charges, prosecutors are required to balance the severity of the crime against the likelihood of securing a conviction. For a variety of reasons, including public statements made about the evidence in this case, my office believed the likelihood of securing a conviction was not certain.

In the interest of full transparency, I would prefer these records be made public. However, in this case, Illinois law allows defendants in certain circumstances to request that public records remain sealed. Smollett chose to pursue that avenue, and so my office is barred from releasing those records without his approval.

Another key factor is that the crime here was a Class 4 felony, the least serious category, which also covers things like falsely pulling a fire alarm in school and “draft card mutilation.” These felonies are routinely resolved, particularly in cases involving suspects with no prior criminal record, long before a case ever nears a courtroom and often without either jail time or monetary penalties. Any prosecutor, law-enforcement leader or elected official not grandstanding or clouded by political expediency understands the purpose of sentencing guidelines.

But more important than the dispassionate legal justification, there was another reason that I believe our decision not to prosecute the case was the right one.

Yes, falsely reporting a hate crime makes me angry, and anyone who does that deserves the community’s outrage. But, as I’ve said since before I was elected, we must separate the people at whom we are angry from the people of whom we are afraid. I am angry at anyone who falsely reports a crime. I am afraid when I see a little girl shot dead while sitting on her mother’s lap. I am afraid when I see a CPD commander slain by a four-time felon who was walking the streets. I am also afraid when I see CPD resources used to initially cover up the shooting death of Laquan McDonald.

I was elected on a promise to rethink the justice system, to keep people out of prison who do not pose a danger to the community. I promised to spend my office’s finite resources on the most serious crimes in order to create communities that are both safer and fairer...

Since it seems politically expedient right now to question my motives and actions, and those of my office, let me state publicly and clearly that I welcome an outside, nonpolitical review of how we handled this matter...
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...-kim-foxx-jussie-smollett-20190329-story.html

In a nutshell, according to her: The evidence probably isn't good enough to convict him and besides that the offense is relatively minor and he shouldn't be jailed.
 
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