conduct a thorough investigation and thankfully we were able to avoid and prevent any loss of life in this case. i should also comment that at this point none of the charges that mr. hasson is facing have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. in our system of justice, of course, that means that mr. hasson is innocent right now of the charges that he is facing. right now i ll turn it over to mr. johnson. all right. so there you have it. that s what jessica was just reporting on there. i want to move on because in just a couple of minutes, empire star jussie smollett will appear in court for the first time since making what police are now saying were completely fabricated allegations and staging a bogus hate crime. he is now under arrest. he is facing a felony charge of disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false report, and today chicago s superintendent of police held this impassioned news conference where he said smollett took advantage of the pain and the anger of racism to
chicago. yep. i want to tell you, this superintendent of police, the chicago police department have made chicago proud. because the way that they have handled this case from the beginning, the seriousness with which they took it and the seriousness with which they are now taking these developments, and not letting anybody get away with it, it really is i think spikes speaks so highly of that police force and their integrity and character. you could tell that for that chief, eddie johnson, who is african-american, this cut very deep, very personally. it is his city but it is also his community, his racial group. i mean, it just, you know, this is this is something that i think he does not i think lz is right. he does not recover from. he was asked what would justice look like? he talked about if jussie smollett apologized, apologized to the city of chicago. i want to ask you all if that s enough or if he just needs to go
with money that he gave them. not only the work that went into this case but the plans they had figured out. defendant smollett texted stating might need your help on the low. you around to meet up to talk face to face? smollett indicated to able his displeasure that the empire of the empire studios handling of the race sbist homophobic letter he received three days earlier. he then stated he wanted to stage an attack where able would appear to better him. defendant smollett also suggested that able s older brother, ola, assist him with the attack. smollett stated that he wanted them to appear to attack him on the evening of january 28th, 2019, near his apartment building in streeterville. defendant smollett also stated he wanted the brothers to catch his attention by calling him an empire f, empire n. defendant smollett then details
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play out in the media, roller coaster ride over the last couple weeks, buck sextant with with the cell. why should anybody fall for the obvious folks to be world-class detectives and unbiased truth tellers when it comes to trump-russia collusion theories. it comes one of the special counsel s report may be wrapping up and fired fbi official andrew mccabe is out there making the rounds selling a book. what you make of the media s treatment of these various issues? let me to say this about the smollett case. there s a real distinction to be made here between a lot the local media and chicago handle this in the way nationally to handle it. the local media in chicago did pretty well on the story and to them it was a local crime story made into a big story about the fact that we had a celebrity is the alleged victim. and they covered it sort of from the police precinct level and kept up with what the cops were telling them both on the record and off and the result was that they were well