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Jussie Smollett update: Chicago Police deny FOIA request from ABC 7 for body/dash camera footage
Twitchy.com ^ | 9:59 pm on February 8, 2019 | Greg P.

Posted on 02/09/2019 9:37:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Here’s the latest on the Jussie Smollett investigation, via Rob Elgas of ABC 7 Chicago:

Have some new information about an @ABC7Chicago FOIA request in the Smollett investigation.

Our FOIA request for this information in the Smollett case was denied.

Last Friday one of our assignment editors filed under FOIA, "requesting any police body cams involving Jussie Smollett including the very first officer on the scene and any other officer body cams that have any video and or sound.. or any police video from police cars".


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1 posted on 02/09/2019 9:37:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Unexpectedly!

JoMa


2 posted on 02/09/2019 9:38:29 AM PST by joma89
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Jussie lassoed the body cams with his fake noose.


3 posted on 02/09/2019 9:40:42 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why no. No you can’t get a reference to help the little twerp figure out how much the police already know.

His lawyers will get all this stuff after he is arraigned and has committed himself to one version of his story or another.


4 posted on 02/09/2019 9:42:30 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Equal treatment right? Besides, didn’t “juicy” tell the cops to turn off the body cams?


5 posted on 02/09/2019 9:43:48 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

None of the versions he’s offered up have been even remotely believable. Not that it matters to the left that he made it up out of whole cloth.


6 posted on 02/09/2019 9:44:18 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The CPD Chief serves at the pleasure of Rham. He's not going to jeopardize his $260,000 salary by letting anything against the narrative slip out.
7 posted on 02/09/2019 9:46:01 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

how can they apply for FOIA privileges in an ongoing case where divulging such footage could jeopardize the case?


8 posted on 02/09/2019 9:48:39 AM PST by Bob434
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I'm not going to attribute this to nefarious action by the police just yet.

The CPD can't accuse Jussie of filing a false hate crime without first building a strong case.

That's why they release meaningless information about the crime.

The police are stringing Jussie along waiting for him to trip up.

Give him enough rope and he's tie his own noose.

9 posted on 02/09/2019 9:51:52 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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The CPD Chief serves at the pleasure of Rham. He’s not going to jeopardize his $260,000 salary by letting anything against the narrative slip out.
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The FBI is working the case. Let them tell it.

Which brings up another deal, why is the FBI doing so much work on a very small cse like this? The lying sos didn’t even lose his sammich or phone in this fake but accurate attack.


11 posted on 02/09/2019 9:57:17 AM PST by shelterguy
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The FBI is working the case. Let them tell it.

They will only make sure nothing truthful ever sees the light of day.


12 posted on 02/09/2019 10:02:02 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What I’d like to know is, did Jussie get the sub he was going after?


13 posted on 02/09/2019 10:02:55 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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I'm guessing that the police are focusing on the source of the rope and the letter that was mailed to Smollett. If either of them can be traced back to Smollett or his associates, he's toast. Even if the police have suspicions of a hoax, they couldn't say so.

That's why I thought it was interesting that they used the phrase "getting their ducks in a row" the other day. If I were Smollett, I'd be worried, because that makes it sound like they are working on a specific theory and want to make it air-tight before going public. If they had actual suspects other than Smollett, I'm not sure they would have used that phrase.

I can't imagine any evidence that would lead to the attacker. Even if they find the person who sent the letter (assuming it was not Smollett or an associate), they probably couldn't prove a link to the alleged assault unless they took DNA samples from Smollett's injuries.
14 posted on 02/09/2019 10:05:30 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This can be the most fake story in history,..and the detectives can have all the proof it was all fake. And it will be covered up by city-haul and Police top brass. The narrative has already been written. It was evil white Trumpers. that’s the history that will be written. Don’t want to make no minorities angry. Mmmmmmm, Mmmmm, Mmmmmm!


15 posted on 02/09/2019 10:14:08 AM PST by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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Rahm might not even believe it:

Obviously the alleged statement of what happened here is horrific and there’s no place for it in the city of Chicago,” Emanuel said during a Wednesday evening press briefing about the extreme weather currently affecting the city. “I know the police department is working aggressively to [get] to the bottom of what happened.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/31/rahm-emanuel-weighs-in-on-alleged-jussie-smollett-attack-no-place-for-it-in-chicago/

16 posted on 02/09/2019 10:17:05 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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So the FBI are on this fraudulent case. Wonder how many agents are involved. We do know that there were about 27 to 29 FBI agents involved in the military style attack launched on Roger Stone’s house that forced him out on the street in his pajamas and his hearing impaired (deaf) wife out on the same street in her nightgown—both barefooted. These two very different situations prove that we have entirely too many FBI agents. Wonder what they occupy their time with when they aren’t carrying out such strategic assignments as these two cases.


17 posted on 02/09/2019 10:21:18 AM PST by Saltmeat
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My theory:

Jussie slipped on ice walking back from Subway and cut his upper cheek.

He picked up his sandwich, went home, didn't say anything to the doorman or security because he was embarrassed by the fall.

At his apartment, he called his manager and told him about the cut on his face and was worried the cut on his face would cause problems during production and he was to embarrassed to tell them he fell.

He and his manager concocted the hate-crime narrative.

If the police accuse him of a hoax the black/gay community will accuse them of not believing a gay black man and go crazy.

The police have to be careful how they proceed so while they're 'investigating all leads' they're hoping Jussie will trip-up and expose the hoax.

18 posted on 02/09/2019 10:29:10 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No picture, No Believe.


19 posted on 02/09/2019 10:40:11 AM PST by carmen2017
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The longer this goes on the worse it gets for jussie.


20 posted on 02/09/2019 10:47:02 AM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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