Racist, phobic attack on Jussie Smollette

[Spurtacular]

lol no, he's not smart at all.

Great analysis, Blake Zero.

[DMC]

well, the staging of a fake hate crime and making false statements to the FBI aren't identical offenses with identical ramifications. equivocating them is a fools errand.

i've already said i think smollette should be tried if the state believes they have a case. i also disagreed with their outright dropping of the charges (unless they have determined they cant prove up the case beyond a reasonable doubt)

Flynn's decorated history was discussed by mueller's team in the sentencing brief. it's a relevant factor. prosecutorial discretion is also a reality. they will consider the magnitude of the harm and the suspect's background in making those calls. it might not be a reality you like, but its there

Does not equate to "higher standard".

[Spurtacular]

This needed to go trial (or a real plea deal). The system looks like a joke now; and of course it is. Everything Obama touches tends to go that way.

[DMC]

This needed to go trial (or a real plea deal). The system looks like a joke now; and of course it is. Everything Obama touches tends to go that way.

No it just highlights what everyone here should already be well aware of, that real class separation is in wealth and power connections not in race although race may play a part in that.

When two cases get completely different levels of attention from the justice system because one person is relatively unknown and the other is a celebrity, that shows you equality isn't really being sought, only privilege is being sought.

Doesn't matter if it's Obama or George Bush's daughters, common people don't get treated the same as this caste of people because everyone else is just a peasant.

[Will Hunting]

No it just highlights what everyone here should already be well aware of, that real class separation is in wealth and power connections not in race although race may play a part in that.

This x1000

[Isitjustme?]

Whose 2020 bid? Kim Foxx's?

[rmt]

No it just highlights what everyone here should already be well aware of, that real class separation is in wealth and power connections not in race although race may play a part in that.

Then it's surprising that some on this board celebrate Smollette getting off virtually scot-free.

[Winehole23]

Then it's surprising that some on this board celebrate Smollette getting off virtually scot-free.

There's a bigger frame. Cook County declining to prosecute Smollette at the same time as Mueller declining to prosecute DJT.

What holds for the one (COMPLETE EXONERATION) should hold for the other -- unless one thinks that declining to prosecute, as AG Barr said himself in his summary of principal findings of the Mueller report, is not an exoneration.

Seemed to me posters were making fun of the hasty triumphalism of Trump supporters.

(shrugs)

[Chucho]

No it just highlights what everyone here should already be well aware of, that real class separation is in wealth and power connections not in race although race may play a part in that.

When two cases get completely different levels of attention from the justice system because one person is relatively unknown and the other is a celebrity, that shows you equality isn't really being sought, only privilege is being sought.

Doesn't matter if it's Obama or George Bush's daughters, common people don't get treated the same as this caste of people because everyone else is just a peasant.

Yup. There are a lot of stupid people who want to make it about race. For every idiot against Smollette, they've a counterpart against the celebrities who bribe educators. It's not about race, it's about privilege.

[spurraider21]

Yup. There are a lot of stupid people who want to make it about race. For every idiot against Smollette, they've a counterpart against the celebrities who bribe educators. It's not about race, it's about privilege.

Or money and race are just two separate factors that can both have an impact. Why does it have to be mutually exclusive?

[Chucho]

Or money and race are just two separate factors that can both have an impact. Why does it have to be mutually exclusive?

Race plays a factor on which side of these two specific cases some people stand on.

They arent mutually exclusive. But for these two instances, they are the driving factors. Privilege and money is why none of the offenders will receive any punishment. Race is the main factor why some people pretend to be upset about these cases.

[koriwhat]

Dude is a lawyer too...

and most all lawyers are frauds just like most liberals. go figure.

[koriwhat]

Then it's surprising that some on this board celebrate Smollette getting off virtually scot-free.

i think we should drop his sorry ass off in the ME and call it a day. smollette!

[Spurtacular]

This x1000

I don't disagree. But it doesn't mean the system isn't broke. If they're that blatant when everyone is watching, imagine the that gets done when people aren't watching.

[Monostradamus]

Then it's surprising that some on this board celebrate Smollette getting off virtually scot-free.

COMPLETE AND TOTAL EXONERATION

[Will Hunting]

I don't disagree. But it doesn't mean the system isn't broke. If they're that blatant when everyone is watching, imagine the that gets done when people aren't watching.

Of course it doesn’t mean the system isn’t broken. A system where rich people get away with the same crime that poor people don’t is obviously very broken.

[Spurtacular]

lol Bill Mitc is a troll account

That's right up your alley.

[rmt]

COMPLETE AND TOTAL EXONERATION

Celebrate all you want. If you or I did that, we'd get the book thrown at us.

[Pavlov]

a week in an people are still missing the joke.

[Spurtacular]

a week in an people are still missing the joke.

Enlighten us, Blake Zero.

[koriwhat]

Celebrate all you want. If you or I did that, we'd get the book thrown at us.

don't worry about his fat ass... you couldn't find a noose big enough to wrap around mono's gullet.

[MultiTroll]

Only 130K? Seems like way more was spent on this putz.

According to Page Six, police still believe Smollett, who has since been ordered to fork over $130,000 to cover the city's legal costs

[Winehole23]

Great, when is the Chicago PD going to pay back the city for the $662 million it has paid out since 2005 to cover the cost of police misconduct?

[koriwhat]

if smollett wasn't fruity he would had been in court by now!

[Spurtacular]

Enlighten us, Blake Zero.

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