Actor Jussie Smollett lashed out at a post on social media that compared him to a schoolgirl who claimed she was held to the ground by 3 white boys and had her dreadlocks cut off.
Self-help star Derrick Jackson posted a comment that compared Smollett to Amari Allen, the schoolgirl who made the claim but then took them back, reported DailyMail.
Jackson wrote below an image of the schoolgirl “Jussie really is a trendsetter.”
To which Smollett posted a lengthy comment defending himself and calling people who didn’t believe his story “misinformed” and “internalized sheep.”
About an hour after Jackson’s post, Smollett replied writing, “With all due respect brother, y’all can clown me all you want but my story has actually never changed and I haven’t lied about a thing. Y’all can continue to be misinformed, internalized sheep, who believe what actual proven liars feed you or you can read the actual docs. Either way, Imma be alright. I know me and what happened. You don’t. So carry on. All love.”
Smollett, known for starring in “Empire,” claimed that at around 2 a.m. on Jan. 29, during a polar vortex, he was attacked by two white supporters of President Donald Trump. During his return from a Subway sandwich shop, Smollett said that the men tied a rope around his neck and poured bleach in his eyes while shouting slurs and a pro-Trump statement.
A weeklong investigation led to Chicago police detectives arresting two black brothers, one had been hired by Smollett as his trainer. After several days in custody, the brothers, Ola and Abel Osundairo, confessed to detectives that Smollett paid them $3,500 to help him fake a hate crime.
Smollett was arrested in mid-February on charges of filing a false police report.
But all charges against Smollett were inexplicably dropped against the actor on March 26, a decision heavily criticized by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, and the Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association. President Donald Trump said the FBI and Department of Justice will review the unusual agreement, which didn’t include Smollett admitting to any wrongdoing.
Foxx initially said she’d recused herself from the case but later said she had merely “separated” from it, and an assistant district attorney in her office was put forward as the man who made the decision to drop the charges. That prosecutor, Joe Magats, said that the case against Smollett was solid, noting, “We didn’t exonerate him.”
Magats was asked by a CBS reporter if he believed that Smollett was guilty, replied, “Yes.”
Epoch Times reporter Zachary Steiber contributed to this report.
