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[7] [8] On February 20, Smollett was indicted for disorderly conduct for paying the brothers to stage a fake hate crime and filing a false police report. [9] His defense team reached a deal with prosecutors on March 26, 2019, in which all charges were dropped in return for Smollett performing community service and forfeiting his $10,000 bond. [10]
Between 1987 and 1996 in the United States, Russell-Brown documented 67 racial hoax cases and noted that 70% were white-on-black hoaxes, more than half were exposed within a week, hoaxes are most frequently used to allege assault, rape, or murder, and hoax perpetrators were charged with filing a false report in about 45% of cases. [7]
A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that there is “overwhelming evidence" that former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett staged a racist, anti-gay attack against himself in downtown Chicago for ...
It's customary for reporters, judges, lawyers and the public to take police officers at their word. The video showing Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes provoked ...
In 2021, Edward Cagney Mathews verbally attacked a neighbor and posted a video challenge “to come see me,” leading to […] The post Man who harassed Black neighbors, hurled racial slurs, gets ...
The month after, the New York state legislature passed a law classifying false police reports against protected groups of people—including race, gender, and religion—as a hate crime. Shortly after the incident, Amy's employer, investment firm Franklin Templeton, fired her and said in a statement that they "do not tolerate racism of any kind".
The woman was reportedly recently charged with a misdemeanor for filing a false police report. “Do you like that she is charged?” Chris Cuomo asked. “Do you want to prosecute her?” “Yeah ...
He tries to remain calm when interacting with officers, because when “you call the police on a Black man, there’s already some suspicion.” Gibson moved to the community in 2021 with family ...