Racial justice, LGBTQ groups urge prosecutor to drop charges against Jussie Smollett
A petition with 15,000 signatures supports dismissing the case against the former Empire star
Daniel Webb to drop the current charges against
Jussie Smollett.
It’s been over two years since Smollett, who is openly gay, reported that he was the victim of ahate crime in Chicago. After receiving an outpouring of public support, the Chicago Police Department eventually accused Smollett of not only lying about the attack but orchestrating it.
As
Keydra Manns previously reported, Smollett was “hit with 16 counts of disorderly conduct and charged with filing a fake police report,” before all of the charges against the actor were eventually dropped.