Chicago’s Dem Mayor Rahm Emanuel Looks to Sue Jussie Smollett

As I mentioned yesterday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was absolutely blown away by the news that Cooke County prosecutors had dropped all charges against hate-crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett.

Chicago Democrat Mayor Rahm Emanuel goes off on Jussie Smollett pic.twitter.com/yXfsXrxApH

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According to Yahoo News:

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel strongly condemned the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office decision to drop all charges against Jussie Smollett, calling it a “whitewash of justice.”

“This is a whitewash of justice,” Emanuel said Tuesday afternoon during a fiery press conference alongside Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson. “A grand jury could not have been clearer.”

In a stunning reversal, all charges were dropped against Smollett Tuesday morning by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. The “Empire” star was indicted on 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct earlier this month. He was accused of lying to police regarding a Jan. 29 incident, in which he said he was randomly attacked by two men shouting racial and homophobic slurs in his Chicago neighborhood.

He’s entirely guilty. But he did 18 hours of community service for Jesse Jackson, and that was enough to wipe clean 16 felony charges. He also let them keep $10,000 of his $100,000 bond.

Whoop-de-doo.

Can you imagine getting off from 16 felony counts for doing 18 hours of community service that your PR person probably suggested you do? That’s basically what happened here.

My man is a criminal defense attorney. He’s never seen or heard of anything like this. It’s a travesty for our justice system. No one should ever be charged with false reporting in Chicago ever again. Feel free to fake a hate crime in Chicago, folks. There are no consequences for it.

And those 10 grand don’t even come CLOSE to covering the manpower and resources spent investigating his hoax.

Emanuel is now considering suing Smollett for the significant financial burden he placed on the city.

According to Fox News:

After publicly blasting the decision to drop 16 charges against embattled “Empire” star Jussie Smollett, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is considering suing the actor to recoup some of the money the city wasted on the lengthy investigation, according to reports.

Emanuel wants to recoup close to $150,000, CBS News reported. Charges against Smollett were dropped after 16 hours of community service and an agreement to forfeit his $10,000, a figure Emanuel said Tuesday “doesn’t even come close to what the city spent in resources” on the case.

Good. But even $150,000 seems low when you think of everything he put the city through.

While the exact cost of the Smollett investigation is unknown, 24 detectives were removed from regular cases, expending up to 1,000 hours, overtime not included to work on the Smollett case. Police also spent dozens of hours of examining surveillance video from 55 city pod cams and private cameras. They also executed 50 search warrants and subpoenas for phone, social media and financial documents. During the 23-day investigation, Chicago was also hit with at least 20 murders and 134 sexual assaults, according to the Chicago Police Department’s crime statistics.

Think of all the actual victims who probably didn’t get the justice they deserved because 24 detectives were removed from “regular cases” to try to solve what was ultimately a disgusting hoax.

The fact that this man gets to walk entirely free is one of the more heinous miscarriages of justice we have seen in a lifetime.