what happened receives the same amount of attention that the hoax did. i continue to pray for this troubled young man, who resorted to both drastic and illegal tactics to gain attention. i will also continue to pray for our city, asking that we can move forward from this and begin to heal. now i would like to call up the commander, who personally led to this patient and deliberate investigation, to walk everyone through how the police department arrived at this point. good morning, everyone. i am the commander of the area central detective division. i am here to answer questions. okay, the boss just corrected me. please forgive me. i am supposed to go through the timeline of our investigation.
central detective division. i m here to answer questions. the boss just corrected me. please forgive me. i m supposed to go through the timeline of our investigation. okay. so here s where we are. as you all know, on the early morning of february 29th, at 2:00 in the morning, jussie smollett reported he was the victim of a hate crime. detectives responded to the incident and interviewed him eventually at northwestern hospital where he reported to us that the two offenders yelled racial and homophobic and