CHICAGO (AP) — Jsie Smollett's fay said Thursday that the attack on the black and gay "Empire" actor downtown Chigo this week was a "hate crime" and they phed back agast any suggtn that he was anythg but hont wh the police.
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- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- BLACK, GAY ‘EMPIRE’ STAR ATTACKED ‘POSSIBLE HATE CRIME’
- JSIE SMOLLETT TRIAL: 'EMPIRE' ACTOR FOUND GUILTY OF STAGG RACIST, ANTI-GAY ATTACK
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Wdy Cy Tim News - Chigo police have opened a hate-crime vtigatn after openly gay actor Jsie Smollett om the televisn show Empire alleged he was attacked by men who shouted racial and homophobic slurs at him and physilly attacked him, acrdg to * gay actor attacked in chicago *
Image source, Getty ImagUS actor Jsie Smollett lied to police when he claimed to have been the victim of a racist, homophobic asslt, a Chigo jury has trial this week, Smollett, 39, stood by nials that he staged the hoax attack agast himself.
Smollett, who is black and gay, told police he was set upon by two assailants who shouted slurs, yelled a Tmp slogan, dumped a "chemil substance" on him, and tied a noose around his neck while he was walkg late at night Chigo.
BLACK, GAY ‘EMPIRE’ STAR ATTACKED ‘POSSIBLE HATE CRIME’
* gay actor attacked in chicago *
"Empire" actor Jsie Smollett has reported beg asslted Chigo on Tuday by two men hurlg racial and homophobic slurs at him and wrappg a rope around his neck what police are vtigatg as a possible hate crime, officials said.
ET) on East North Lower Water Street, the upsle neighborhood of Streeterville, is when two men attacked him, the actor told "unknown offenrs approached him and gaed his attentn by yellg out racial and homophobic slurs towards him, " acrdg to a statement om the Chigo Police Department. Smollett, who is black and gay, took himself to Northwtern Memorial Hospal for treatment.
”Friends and -workers of Smollett's addn to gay-rights advot also spoke out. "The Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn said a statement: "GLAAD reached out to FOX and Jsie’s team today to offer assistance as well as support for him. "The recent racist and homophobic attack on acclaimed actor and activist Jsie Smollett is troublg, " he said a statement, " Johnson said a statement.
JSIE SMOLLETT TRIAL: 'EMPIRE' ACTOR FOUND GUILTY OF STAGG RACIST, ANTI-GAY ATTACK
That was the story that richeted around the world after Jsie Smollett, a Black and openly gay actor, reported to Chigo police that he was the victim of a hate crime. * gay actor attacked in chicago *
Jamal is a gay sger-songwrer and his sexual orientatn and reer pennce has him at odds wh the fay patriarch. Smollett me out as gay a backstage terview wh Ellen DeGener 2015, after "Empire" first aired on Fox. Smollett had earlier 2019 been charged wh 16 unts of felony disorrly nduct for allegedly hirg two men to stage a racist, homophobic attack agast him downtown beg arrted January 2019 and acced of stagg a hoax, Smollett later said: “I have been tthful and nsistent on every sgle level sce day one.