Opinion | Mikki Kendall: Jussie Smollett is not the best example of the lack of accountability in Chicago. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is. - NBCNewsTHINK
and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson slammed the prosecutors’ decision in a joint press conference at Chicago’s Navy Pier.The Jussie Smollett attack is so personal for black LGBT people because we know it could have been any of us
The case, though, has been sealed, we will likely never know the details of the investigation or any of the subsequent agreements and there’s no way to determine what the result might have been had the case gone to trial — which means there will never be any public consensus about the truth. The problem of course is that, regardless of the legal precept that everyone is innocent in the eyes of the law until proven guilty in a court of it, the adage is not true in the court of public opinion. Legally, with the charges against him dismissed, Jussie Smollett is not guilty of any of the 16 counts with which he was charged, but there is still no shortage of conspiracy theories about him, his friends and whether or not his celebrity status helped him avoid going to trial.
The outgoing Mayor Emanuel appears now to be a proponent of the latter, having given yet another press conference on the case at which he said, “This is a whitewash of justice. A grand jury could not have been clearer.
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