If the charges are true, there should be three people charged and not simply one and two witnesses.

Is CPD allowing witnesses to be discharged because of embarassment? The two men carried out the crime. I don't care if they were hired to produce an end result for Smollett, they were assailants.

The two assailants are just as guilty in participating in this as Smollett.

February 21, 2019

Chicago — “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett (click here) was charged Wednesday with making a false police report when he said he was attacked in downtown Chicago by two men who hurled racist and anti-gay slurs and looped a rope around his neck, police said.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said prosecutors charged Smollett with felony disorderly conduct, an offense that could bring one to three years in prison and force the actor to pay for the cost of the investigation into his report of a Jan. 29 beating.

Authorities were trying to get in touch with Smollett’s attorneys to “negotiate a reasonable surrender,” Guglielmi said. That could involve the actor, who is black and gay, turning himself in to a Chicago police station....