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Learned about the motive? >> so let me reiterate again. you all heard me say consistently that we were treating mr. smollett like a victim and we did. we might have had some peculiarities with the case as wth most cases. it wasn't until the 47th hour that it took a change. so we gave them the benefit of the doubt until the 47th hour. when we discovered the actual motive, quite frankly, it pissed everybody off because we have to invest valuable resources. what i want you all to really understand is when you all put things out there that is not actual facts that we have to track those down. thos...

You also said that he is dissatisfied with his salary. did you get that information from the two brothers? >> yes. >> who were the search warrants issued against? >> a number of individuals. we serve subpoenas and warrants on mr. smollett, his manager for phone records, the two people of interest that we had. we have a few search warrants and subpoenas waiting to come back. >> talk about the detectives and the amount of resources. can you quantify how many man hours went into this and can you confirm detectives were pulled from one case to. >> we didn't pull resources from shootings or homicid...

What he did. he orchestrated this. >> does he have to pay the money back? >> i think that is a subject for another day, but, of course, it's because of what he did that we had to invest all of these resources. >> do you have text messages between -- >> the decision to recuse himself effect the charges? >> i'm a police superintendent. she is cook county states attorney. we talk almost every day about different cases. the fact that she recused herself didn't impact the case at all. >> did she drag her feet in any way? >> listen, we have a great relationship with our federal partners. and we cert...

What he should offer up in terms of all the resources that were put into this. thank you. >> that was just a scathing take down of an alleged hate crime that turned out to be false. the chicago superintendent of police there with palpable anger really as he spoke calling this despicable, calling it shameful, saying that jussie smollett took drastic and legal tactics simply to gain attention and because he wasn't satisfied with his salary. rare that you see uniformed police officers be so direct and so angry frankly at a false crime. listen to his comments how the superintendent eddie johnson k...

Kroo criminal justice system that celebrities are treated differently once they are in the criminal justice system. sometimes they are treated better than other defendants and sometimes it cuts against them as in the case with michael vick. let's focus on that. crimes that involve making false police reports to police like the dog fighting crimes aren't often prosecuted and you don't often see people go to jail. this is a nonviolent crime if he did commit it. this isn't a crime where anyone was harmed other than the resources that were utilized. >> sorry to interrupt. we see the press conferen...