Jussie Smollett Update: 'Empire' Actor Indicted on 16 Felony Counts by Grand Jury

ABC Eyewitness News ^ | March 8, 2019 | Unnatributed

[traderrob6]

“Federal counts” or “Felony counts”

[OKSooner]

I saw what you just now did right there...

[SamAdams76]

There’s no such thing as hate crime....

True. A crime is a crime. Hate doesn’t enter into it.

[Doogle]

Eyep....didn’t hear anything from his other cast members....

[mykroar]

Experts believe it is likely he will strike a plea deal and potentially not spend time in prison.

[ETL]

From Screen to Scorn: For Jussie Smollett, a Life of Arts and Activism Is Upended [NY Slimes]

New York Times ^ | Feb 23, 2019 | Jack Healy, Michael Cooper and Serge F. Kovaleski

CHICAGO — Ever since he was a child actor growing up in a show-business family, Jussie Smollett’s life blended activism with the make-believe worlds of television and movies. ..."

He spoke of his mother’s closeness with the Black Panthers and prominent civil-rights leaders, and how she had encouraged Mr. Smollett and his brothers and sisters to create art and live out their beliefs. ..."

For Mr. Smollett, arts and activism were intertwined throughout his childhood.

His parents met while campaigning for civil rights in the Bay Area of California, and his mother had worked with the founders of the Black Panthers and prominent civil-rights leaders, according to a New York Times interview with Mr. Smollett in 2016.

Between child-acting gigs and press junkets that the six siblings did for their 1994 ABC sitcom, their mother, Janet Smollett, made sure the children played sports and read about figures like Malcolm X and Langston Hughes, she told The Los Angeles Times in 1994. (His family did not respond to phone or email messages.)

“I know their mother, Janet, has always taught them to stand up for themselves, and for what they believe,” Mr. Harris said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

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[Feb 2nd] Smollett Siblings & Their Ex Black Panther Mom Finally Speak On Jussie’s Racist Attack

iloveoldschoolmusic.com ^ | Feb 2, 2019

The past three days have been deeply trying for Empire actor, Jussie Smollett, to say the least.

After being brutally attacked by racists early Tuesday (January 29, 2019) morning, an ongoing investigation has resulted in several discoveries, but still no suspects apprehended.

Now, Jussie’s five siblings and Moms have decided to address the violent attack, as well as what they plan on doing about it going forward.

FYI: Their Mom was an activist and a member of The Black Panther Party back in the day.

So neither she, nor her kids, will simply take this violent racist/homophobic attack against her baby lying down.

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From the New York Times...

"Jussie and Jurnee still count their mother, Janet Smollett, as their only acting coach. An African-American from New Orleans, Ms. Smollett met their father, Joel Smollett Sr., a Russian-Polish Jew, in the Bay Area, where they campaigned for civil rights.

“My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,” Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader.

“To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends. We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela.”..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/arts/television/the-smollett-family-business-acting-and-activism.html

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“My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,” Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader.

“To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends.

We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela.”..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/arts/television/the-smollett-family-business-acting-and-activism.html

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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: ANGELA DAVIS

* Communist professor at the University of California’s Santa Cruz campus
* Recipient of the Lenin “Peace Prize” from the police state of East Germany in 1979
* Provided an arsenal of weapons to Black Panthers who used them to kill a Marin Country judge in a failed attempt to free Davis' imprisoned lover, Black Panther murderer George Jackson
* Icon of the campus Left and frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies
* Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
* “The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.”

Angela Yvonne Davis is a tenured professor in the “History of Consciousness” program at the University of California - Santa Cruz.

A former member of the Black Panther Party, she is currently a “University Professor,” one of only seven in the entire California University system, which entitles her to a six-figure salary and a research assistant.

This income is supplemented by speaking fees ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 per appearance on college campuses, where she is an icon of radical faculty, administrators, and students.

Davis has also taught at UCLA and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303

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"Meet Their Moms- Mrs. Janet Smollett Is The TRUTH!"

Janet Smollett, with one of Jussie's 2 brothers [my caption]

http://admin.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/slideshow/smollett-siblings-ex-black-panther-mom-finally-speak-jussies-racist-attack/8/

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"My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton,

and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,” Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader.

“To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends.

We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela.”..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/arts/television/the-smollett-family-business-acting-and-activism.html

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"In 1970 Davis was implicated by more than 20 witnesses in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, fellow Black Panther George Jackson, by hijacking a Marin County, California courtroom and taking hostage the judge, the prosecuting assistant district attorney, and two jurors.

In an ensuing gun battle outside the court building, Judge Harold Haley’s head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun owned by Ms. Davis.

To avoid arrest for her alleged complicity in the plot, Ms. Davis fled California, using aliases and changing her appearance to avoid detection.

Two months later, Davis was arrested by the FBI in New York City."

https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/angela-davis/

[FlingWingFlyer]

That should be a lesson to all “minorities”. DON’T “LYNCH” YOURSELF!!!!

[ETL]

Check out what it says on the idiot's shirt...

Took a few "zoom-ins"...

"Huey" is one of the founders of the cop-killing, revolutionary communist, Black Panthers.

And "Angela", well, you know, read her bio above.

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Re: Stokely Carmichael

"The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism.

That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us. "

--Stokely Carmichael

[OKSooner]

I just went back and checked. Sourced from CBS news, 16 Federal counts.

“That boy’s in a heap o’ trouble.”

[Red Badger]

Read that when he showed up on the set after the arrest they went ballistic on him.

I guarantee he was not expecting that.

He was expecting to be welcomed like a conquering hero in the battle against whitey.

He’s a sociopath. He did not care that he endangered their careers and their lives....................

[simpson96]

Hi Jussie!

How's your day going? :-D

[Doogle]

..oh I must of error...

[little jeremiah]

“Jussie” got in a car accident and gave the cops his brother’s name or something along those lines.

[ETL]

Re: "Huey" Newton

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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey [Newton] rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [the police].

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

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Kaepernick also supports the cop-killing, revolutionary communist, Black Panthers...

"Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African-American political activist and revolutionary who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. He continued to pursue an education, eventually earning a Ph.D. in social philosophy.[1][2] In 1989 he was shot and killed in Oakland, California. ..."

"As a student at Merritt College in Oakland, Newton became involved in politics in the Bay Area. He joined the Afro-American Association (AAA), became a prominent member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, Beta Tau chapter; and played a role in getting the first African-American history course adopted as part of the college's curriculum.

He read the works of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, Mao Zedong, Émile Durkheim, and Che Guevara.

During his time at Merritt College, he met Bobby Seale, and the two organized the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in October 1966.[3]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_P._Newton

Backup link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171125112853/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_P._Newton

[Liz]

.....what got the Feds involved initially, investigating what they thought was a legitimate hate crime, b/c Jussie mailed hate mail to himself......

I hear the DNC invited Jussie to entertain at their next convention....

Jussie will sing the 50's hit, "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter."

[NRx]

Agreed. He has embarrassed the powers that be in Chicago and a lot of prominent progs nationally. And he has brought disrepute on one of their pet causes. They are going to make an example out of him. This is going to be ugly.

[OKSooner]

Charles Barkley was ridiculing him with no mercy, for hiring a couple of black guys to beat him up, and then paying them with checks.

Shaquille emphatically didn’t disagree...

[little jeremiah]

Have link to other thread?

[cp124]

Whitey put the finger on the black guy again.

[ETL]

"'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded"