did the brothers testify or tell police that the check was for the attack, or was it for training? well, when you look at if you read the bond proffer, what they said the check was for is in that bond proffer, and it was for the attack. okay. the staged attack. so let s talk about this letter. what about the letter because that was one of the first things you said during the initial press conference, that you believe that he this is the one that came about a week before to the set of empire. the fbi says that is not confirmed. well, yeah. the fbi has not confirmed that, you know, that s their individual investigation. so any comments that we ve made about it is from evidence that we ve gathered independent of the fbi. so this is from your own so they may in fact come up with they may in fact come up with something different. but this is from you re talking about chicago p.d. s evidence has nothing to do with
and i would tell you this also. we classified him as a victim. we gave him the benefit of the doubt all the way up until the 47th hour of the 48th hour that we could legally hold those two brothers in custody. it turned at that 47th hour, and that s when he became a suspect in this, you know. our job is to gather the facts and evidence, present them to the state s attorney, who then decides if the evidence is sufficient for charging. they decided it was. now, the next step is to go through the judicial process and either a judge or jury will decide who s telling the truth. so, we just let the judicial process play out. he did say it was white he saw white skin. he said that to you, to police? yes. if you read the bond proffer i did. you ll see that in there. i have you here. i just want to make sure. again, you stand by the evidence you have, and you said you have more evidence than what you presented at the press conference and in the proffer that leads you to believe th
so let s talk about some of those things. you said there s additional evidence, but you can t talk about it. what about this whole thing about the check? you know, he s saying he wrote on the line that it was for training and whatever, and it wasn t to stage an attack. what do you say to that? well, you know what? like i said, don, a lot of these things will come out in court if it gets that far. but let s face it. if you were going to, let s say, buy a stolen car, you wouldn t put in the memo line buying stolen car. that s what i ll say to that. did the brothers testify or tell police that the check was for the attack, or was it for training? well, when you look at if you read the bond proffer, what they said the check was for is in that bond proffer, and it was for the attack. okay. the staged attack. so let s talk about this letter. what about the letter because that was one of the first things you said during the initial press conference, that you believe that he
jussie smollett insists he s innocent after being charged with staging a racial and homophobic attack. superintendent eddie johnson says the chicago p.d. has a lot more evidence that proves smollett is not telling the truth. superintendent johnson joins me now. good evening, sir. thank you so much for joining us here. i really appreciate it. good evening. thanks for having me. absolutely. a lot more evidence. can you talk about it? what is that? well, i can t really go into specifics because we re past the bond proffer, but i can just tell you this. normally when we do things of this nature, all the evidence isn t provided up front. so there are some other things that just don t support the original version of the story that we got. okay.
it turned at that 47th hour, and that s when he became a suspect in this, you know. our job is to gather the facts and evidence, present them to the state s attorney, who then decides if the evidence is sufficient for charging. they decided it was. now the next step is to go through the judicial process and either a judge or jury will decide who s telling the truth. so we just let the judicial process play out. he did say it was white he saw white skin. he said that to you, to police? yes. if you read the bond proffer i did. you ll see that in there. i have you here. i just want to make sure. again, you stand by the evidence you have, and you said you have more evidence than when you presented at the press conference and in the proffer that leads you to believe that this was something that he cooked up himself? i absolutely stand by the investigation.