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Behind the Scenes, It’s Clear Chicago Media and Police Doubt Jussie Smollett’s Story

I can’t recall a large crime story where there was a bigger gap between what the police and media are saying publicly, and what they expressing behind the scenes, than the saga involving the recent alleged hate crime against actor Jussie Smollett. Similarly, there may not be a story where you can tell more by what has not happened, in comparison to what actually has occurred.

The current public stance of the Chicago police is that earlier this month, at 2 a.m. on a very cold Chicago night, Smollett was the victim of what appears to be a heinous hate crime where he was physically attacked by two men, and humiliated due to his race, homosexuality, and possibly his opposition to President Donald Trump. The Chicago media, in official reports, has largely treated that narrative as legitimate, while chronicling the complete lack of suspects and corroborating evidence as more of a frustration than any indication that something else might be going on here.

Behind the scenes, however, based on conversations I have had with multiple people covering the story, there is a radically different take on what really did happen to Smollett. In short, there is near unanimity among police sources that Smollett’s story is very likely not true. And that even the media outlets still regurgitating the current “party line” don’t really believe it.

In my experience, most people are very bad at reading the tea leaves in these types of situations, and it often leads to very inaccurate interpretations of what is really going on. This case has several important elements which, if you know what to look for, make evaluating the actions of the police and news media really rather easy.

The first thing you need to understand about this situation is that, because of Smollett’s persona and the nature of his allegation, no one in law enforcement or the news media wants any part of publicly questioning his story. Everyone knows that if they make any sort of negative implication against a black, gay, liberal, celebrity, victim of a horrible hate crime, that they will be roundly and severely attacked, regardless of whether they turn out to be correct.

As a conservative, I look at this as his Political Correctness Force Field. Smollett’s protection here is literally about as strong as it gets, especially in Chicago, a city that has a large black population and is extremely liberal.

So, in this hyper-sensitive media environment, any sort of deviation from the accepted storyline by the police or the news media, much like if your seven-year-old kid is showing subtle signs they no longer believe in Santa Claus, must be given exponentially greater significance than it normally would. Here, both the police and news media in Chicago have provided plenty of those types of veiled indications, both publicly and privately.

Among other things, the police have made it very clear they have not yet found any proof of an attack, despite having almost all of Smollett’s movements on surveillance video. They have disclosed that Smollett would not give over his cell phone to verify his timeline of events. They even published photos of “persons of interest” that they had to know were going to be universally mocked for being obviously irrelevant.

In my view, none of those important revelations would have been made public in the way that they were, unless there was extreme suspicion within the police force that Smollett’s story was not fully accurate.

By extension, media figures would not be being told by their police sources, as I have been told is currently happening both routinely and with vigor, that the authorities are acting on the assumption that they will never find any evidence to fully substantiate Smollett’s story. This isn’t just happening via idle speculation either, the police are doing so with great specificity, even including an alternative theory for what really happened (current attempts to find the origin of the rope found around Smollett’s neck long after the event was over are believed to be the most likely game-changer, if there ever is one in this case).

As for the Chicago media, a couple of local television reporters are apparently using Twitter as a confessional for information about the case that their stations currently fear to air. Rob Elgas of the Chicago ABC affiliate, and Rafer Weigel of the Fox station (which carries Smollett’s show Empire) have continually updated the developments, or lack thereof, in a way that paints a much different picture from the one that viewers would see on an actual newscast.

It is very obvious that if one major news outlet in Chicago had the guts to be the first to openly discredit Smollett’s story, the others would soon follow the leader. But because the risk of being wrong in this situation (see Smollett’s PC Force Field), there is just no incentive to take that dive until and unless the police finally make a definitive statement.

I have written previously about my skepticism about the case, and speculated that this story would quickly disappear because there is no way it would get conclusively solved, and no one in authority will have any appetite for the perils of debunking a story from someone like Smollett. However, Weigel tweeted out some rather candid thoughts yesterday which gave me slight hope that maybe we will actually get to the truth of this matter (though, if that truth is indeed as those closest to the story suspect that it is, the news cycle created by that shocking disclosure will probably be exceedingly short).

Re: Ricecel punches out multiple roasties assaulting him, a 240lb whiteknight chad saw and tried to kill him but the ricecel stabbed him 6 times. MSM was siding with Chad being the savior of women and self defence nearly got the ricecel 10 years.

(HomoheroBishii)
Three things I hate rolled into one:

White knight Chads.
Racism against ricecels.
Men being shamed for hitting roasties back.

Ragefuel cocktail.

(xian_ren)

It's over for ricecels. We get stepped on by everybody but as soon as we defend ou-- I mean step out of line, we get cucked by the law.

Honestly I think nearly the exact same situation would happen to a whitecel if he was short and ugly. Except maybe the women wouldn't be so quick to jump to violence. The entire world supporting chad narrative would still happen for sure though, regardless.

(HomoheroBishii)

Honestly I think nearly the exact same situation would happen to a whitecel if he was short and ugly.

Of course. Being a ricecel was just the cherry on top. The Chad even called him a chink lol.

Except maybe the women wouldn't be so quick to jump to violence.

Nah foids love starting fights with manlets because foids think it's an easy win.

(MasterShortStuff)
How can ricecels ever dream of reclaiming their women from white Chads when they're aren't even allowed to defend their fucking lives from Chad?

It's over.

(HoboMaxxed)
Media is as racist as foids are. They'd kill a million STEMmaxxed ricecels and currycels to save one Chad mass murderer.

(incel_dionysus)
We can learn a lot from both sides in this incident. The obvious being that for a lot of people there is no such thing as self-defense when it comes to women attacking you. Also don't fucking white knight! It is dangerous, regardless of how you feel about it personally, it is never a good idea to needlessly involve yourself in a altercation. Chad got knifed to ribbons for no good reason.

(hhhh__)

Accounts differ on who hit whom first

Yeah, that roastie definitely swung first. They always think they can get away with hitting a man.

(aebazzelle)

JFL at this revisionist version of the story, to be expected from the daily mail.
Hero National Guardsman, 19, forced to withdraw from college after he was stabbed six times when he jumped the aid of a woman who was being attacked by road rage driver
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2938837/UW-student-19-National-Guard-reservist-stabbed-six-times-protecting-woman-punched-face-man-stole-parking-space.html

Jesus Cocksucking Christ! These fucking cucks will cut their own dicks off and fuck themselves with it before admitting a Stacy could ever be in the wrong.

(HomoheroBishii)

Then he fights back before 2 beckies join her (1 of them is a noodle JFL)

Not surprised a noodlewhore joined in to attack the ricecel. Fucking noodlefoids.

making rice cake out of him

LOL

(Administrative_Worth)
If you're a low social status individual don't step out of line. I'm certain the women started hitting him first, or at least pushing him. And then chad comes in chases him down and slams his head against a car. Shouldn't have stopped, some of his intestines were hanging out, one more rip in the moment, and he would be shit5ting into a colonoscopy bag at best

(beautycel)
"Harper ran toward them saying something to the effect of “You don’t hit girls.” Shortly thereafter, Harper was left bleeding in the street. "

cuck chad

(humanrightsisameme)
"Around whites never relax"

east asian proverb

(GanksGriefersForFun)
Chad admits to giving this guy a black eye, called him a coward in an interview, and after ricecel is found not guilty still says that he believes what he did was right and that hitting girls is wrong.

No shit Chad is studying political science. Why do I get the feeling that all people I meet who are studying for "political science" tend to be extremely flawed and narrow minded individuals? It takes a narrow mind to even walk that path in life.

(slippery_people)
This case just illustrates the folly of multiculturalism. Racial harmony will never happen because people are too fucking sensitive, they have inferiority (or superiority) complexes and there's too much power and reward to be gained by casting oneself as a victim. More and more we are going to see Asians, especially university students, inventing racial victim narratives for themselves. It's ridiculous enough when blacks do it. But Asians? Give me a fucking break.

To be clear, the chink in this case did nothing wrong. But bullshit like this:

Among other things, Gan suggests that King County prosecutors tried to use Ha’s participation in traditional Chinese dances as evidence that he was a trained martial-arts fighter, and goes as far as to suggest that Ha’s prosecution is just the latest chapter in the Pacific Northwest’s shameful history of discrimination against Asian immigrants, harking back to the lynch mobs of the early 20th century.

deserves to be ridiculed. If I hear some riceboy crying about how he is oppressed because a bunch of poor coolies built the western railroads 125 years ago I will laugh in his face.

If you actually read the article, Ha himself didn't even think race played a factor into the altercation at all. It was the author and blogs who kept bringing it up.

Exactly it was a bunch of wannabe academics trying to score pokémon points for being minorities

The guy was even being hit by one of his own. Cut him some slack. They don't get treated nice anywhere except the country they come from meanwhile Chad is likes in many places around the world.

Yes it's not the guy's fault. My complaint is that despite the incident ostensibly having nothing to do with race, it caused an army of Asian grievance mongers to crawl out of the woodwork and cry about their oppression at the hands of evil whitey. I don't even blame those guys. Just saying this will inevitably happen in a multicultural society, and we don't have to put up with it.

(Chinky_Stinky)
Lol fuck off. There's real reverse racism against Asians through affirmation action policies in universities. Asians have no social or media power at all and libshits don't give a fuck about their complaints because they're model minorities. You don't see Asians on every fucking TV show or ads and being catered to. The only ones that have victimhood power are black people because of you dumb ass whities. It's half of your white population that are destroying yourselves with multiculturalism by enabling it, and Asians have nothing to do with it.

I don't disagree. I also don't see any reason why white people should allow Asians to dominate our universities. It's not really in our interest.

You already let a certain race less populous than Asians dominate every single aspect of education and media and the majority of your race is too dumb to see it lmao.